SharePoint Feature Deployment Tip.

In a previous article, I have shown how to build a SharePoint Feature and here is just a trick that could save you quite some time… The issues is that when developing a SharePoint features (or any other component), you end up writing, compiling and testing your code many times over. The code you are writing is a separate component that, essentially, has to be taken from Visual Studio, registered in the GAC, plugged into SharePoint and then manually activated. Then you realize something isn’t working, you make a change to your code, compile and you end up with a new component, but you can’t try it, before turning off and “unplugging” the component that is currently plugged into SharePoint. And that is just the class…if you make changes to anything inside the Features folder, you have to remember to upload that as well… In other words, it requires several manual steps outside of the development environment that could consume a lot of time. To make it easier for myself, I...