CHAPTER 19 Packaging and Deployment Model

In the various examples in this book, we’ve made extensive use of Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer to create and deploy custom code to SharePoint. By now you should have a good idea of how projects are structured in Visual Studio and how this structure relates to the entities that are created in SharePoint.

The projects we’ve worked on so far have been relatively small, and we’ve deployed to a single development server. Although we’ve been using the SharePoint packaging and deployment model, we haven’t explored it’s full potential. In the real world, a knowledge of how packaging and deployment works in a SharePoint farm is an essential skill. This chapter will help you use the knowledge you’ve gained ...

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