We just published a must see paper written by Patrick Tisseghem of U2U, Mike Fitzmaurice, and heavy consultation from Mike Ammerlaan:
Have you wanted information on how to package Web Parts, event receivers, list/feature/site definitions into solutions? How to deploy those solutions from a development environment to a test environment into production? How application assets deployment is different from content deployment? How to push a new version of a Web Part/feature/application page out to a site that has the old version already in production?
This paper covers it. Go get it!
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Cash:
You can find a couple articles with code sample and videos here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332059.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332455.aspx