Deploying a Custom Action to All Announcements Lists

Earlier in this chapter, I showed you how to create a custom action in an Announcements list that added a print option to the LIM. However, if you need to deploy that same capability to all Announcements lists then you need to create a custom action Feature to do so. In this section, I revisit the earlier print custom action and re-create the custom action as a Feature using Visual Studio 2010.

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Before you proceed with the following example, it is assumed that you have already modified the web.config file and saved the print.aspx file to the /_layouts directory on the SharePoint Web front-end server, as shown in the “Creating a Custom Action to Print Lists” section earlier in this chapter. ...

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