Developing a SharePoint Feature

I have worked with SharePoint for a while now, mostly mostly writing code for integration scenarios, where data needs to be “pulled” or “pushed” into SharePoint involving other enterprise software applications. SharePoint 2007 Features are basically a mechanism to extend SharePoint in any way you need. Mike Ammerlaan wrote a brief and concise technical article describing features: I will try to describe how to develop a SharePoint 2007 Feature from zero. In this case our feature will handle the event that SharePoint usually handles when a file gets added to a Document Library. When a user uploads a new document to a Document Library, we want to run some custom code. In our example we will simply be creating a text file on the desktop containing data from the file that fired such event. Obviously you would want to make it something meaningful, like pass that data to an external workflow application or do womething with that document, but this is just an example. I have worked with SharePoint for a...