I just released a new stsadm command in the Trentacular SharePoint 2007 Features CodePlex project called smartsolutionupgrade. The purpose of this command is to perform Solution upgrades in a smart manner by performing the following actions: Accepts as input either a single Solution filename or a filename of a text file containing a list of… Read More »
I just released the third Feature that is now part of the Trentacular SharePoint 2007 Features CodePlex project: Site Settings Custom Actions The Feature currently adds just a single custom action and page for exposing and managing Web (Site) properties with a similar UI as the previously released Farm Properties Editor (part of the Central… Read More »
I just released the second feature that is now part of the Trentacular SharePoint 2007 Features CodePlex project: Central Administration Extensions The solution currently deploys just a single custom action and page for managing farm properties. This has proved useful for us as a means to centralize configuration that is applicable across our entire SharePoint… Read More »
I’ve finally gotten around to starting a CodePlex project for publishing SharePoint features called Trentacular SharePoint 2007 Features. The first contribution to the project should reach a broad audience (within the SharePoint population that is) … an ASP.Net 3.5 Upgrade Feature. The Feature is naturally scoped to a Web Application and adds ASP.Net 3.5 entries… Read More »
Greg Galipeau wrote a thorough post on cleaning up your Web Part Gallery that is the basis for this post. To summarize, Greg shares a Feature Receiver he uses as a generic Feature Receiver for all his WebPart Features that simply removes the WebPart having the same name as the Feature’s DisplayName when the Feature… Read More »
If you are writing SharePoint feature receivers often, you will find there are several lines of code common to just about every feature receiver: A cast of properties.Feature.Parent to the appropriate scope (either SPWeb, SPSite, SPWebApplication, or SPFarm) Empty implementations of FeatureInstalled and FeatureUninstalling Provided below is an abstract generic class that now serves as… Read More »