This is probably going to sound vague, but I have two C# SharePoint projects within a solution.
I have been working on Project 1 for a while and it gets deployed to my local instance of SharePoint on my development machine.
Project 1 consists of 1 Package, 1 Feature, 1 Module and a number of Application Pages.
I started work on Project 2 yesterday. It consists of 1 Package, 1 Feature, 1 Module and a number of Application Pages.
I set Project 2 to my default project in the solution and start debugging. I cannot see my feature in the Site Settings->Manage site features.
Both were created from the SharePoint 2010 Project template. I am unsure on how to diagnose this one.
The configuration between Project 1 and 2 in terms of Package/Feature/Module looks fine.
In a nutshell, Project 2 has:
Project Properties
Active Deployment Configuration - No Activation (this does not make a difference when set to Default)
Sandboxed Solution - False
Site URL - http//mydesktoppc/
Package
- Layouts
- SSFDM Feature
- Project Items contains SSFDM (Module)
Package Properties
Deployment Server Type - WebFrontEnd
Description - some text
Name - e.g. Company.Project2.SSFDM
Solution Id - 13e01bbe-b033-4d8f-a2d8-4cdc76ff9304
Title - SSFDM
Feature
- Contains SSFDM (Module)
Feature Properties
Activate On Default - False
Always Force Install - True
Creator - ME!
Deployment Path - $SharePoint.Project.FileNameWithoutExtension$_$SharePoint.Feature.FileNameWithoutExtension$
Description - some text
Feature Id - 53af07c8-79c6-49a9-9ee1-99dcdf3eca43
Scope - Site
Title - SSFDM Feature
Module
Elements.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<Module Name="SSFDM"
Url="SitePages"
Path="SSFDM">
<File Name="XX1.aspx"
Url="DataEntry/XX1.aspx"
Type="GhostableInLibrary" />
<File Name="XX2.aspx"
Url="DataEntry/XX2.aspx"
Type="GhostableInLibrary" />
<File Name="XX3.aspx"
Url="DataEntry/XX3.aspx"
Type="GhostableInLibrary" />
<File Name="Default.aspx"
Url="Default.aspx"
Type="GhostableInLibrary" />
</Module>
</Elements>
UPDATE
The solution is now showing up under Farm Solutions, but I cannot see the Feature SSFDM in the site features. The SharePoint 2010 Administration Service was not running initially.