I start we had the Tech.Ed image:
Next, our names and titles:
Some links and referances:
- http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx
Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007 [MSDN]
SharePoint Solution Installer
Scott Hillier’s Open Source SharePoint 2007 Features
How to: Deploy UDFs Using Windows SharePoint Services Solutions [MSDN]
The agenda of the session (Milan covered that):
Here I spoke about the difference between templates (save as template for a list or a site) and definitions (file system xml and aspx files that allow developers and administrators have more control over the sites after deployment)
A quick explanation of how a solution package is built. For example I showed the package of the "print list" feature as it was done by Scott Hillier.
Next I discussed what are DDF files and why we need them (we need them to let makecab.exe know how to build our cab file - using folders), as well as giving some alternatives such as cabarc that allows you to build a cab file with folders in it - no need for a definition file. I also mentioned a tool I never used - WSPBuilder
Now to my part of the demo - I showed how to create a feature for a webpart and how to package it. I used my own Enhanced Content Query WebPart solution package to demonstrate this, and you can download that from codeplex!
After that Milan took over and showed a scenario that used the Solution Generator (part of the WSS extensions for Visual Studio) to create a site definition, with lists that are connected to workflows and have BDC fields and all. It was pretty complex, and I felt we needed more time to really explain it all.
And that was my first presentation. I will let you know about the second one soon.
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