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Ideally, I'd like to branch a branding solution base I have been working on into two distinct branding solutions. However, I know that the solution ID (along with other identifiers) of a WSP can only be registered within SharePoint 2010 once. A second installation of an already identified package will fail.

Is it possible to have multiple packages with the same solution ID on a single farm?

How do you handle source control of solutions when you want to have a test and dev version of the same solution?

Thanks for your time!

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  • I think the real question is why do you have dev and prod on the same farm? Also, what source control system do you use?
    – RJ Cuthbertson
    Commented Nov 15, 2012 at 21:58
  • Thanks for the reply. I have a farm of 6 servers, and an isolated lab environment in vm. I meant to say dev and test (I have edited the question to reflect this), but really its more about the branching of a solution. I use TFS for source control. Thanks again!
    – Integration
    Commented Nov 16, 2012 at 2:15

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No, you can't have multiple solutions with the same ID on a farm. When you deploy a .wsp it will overwrite the previous solution package.

To branch your solution in TFS let me refer you to the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching and Merging Guide. Here, we branch when we have a release to snapshot the code in time, and then precede to develop on a separate branch, so we can effectively maintain multiple versions of code. How you use branching is your prerogative.

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