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I've been looking a little bit more on finding the easiest way to deploy resource files (.RESX) in the App_GlobalResources directory and I found various solutions that includes Features and Timer Jobs to synchronize these resource files. Mikhail Dikov
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This is a follow-up to my Site Definition Helper scripts post . As described in that post, we were looking at making it simple to create multiple webs. While you can use a site definition with a PortalProvisioningProvider to do this, if you have variations,
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My team ran into this last week where I asked to have some properties available to the feature. It was the first time that we were allowing properties in the features and I hadn't given much explanation as to how I was seeing the property definition.
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A couple months ago, when I started reading about Feature Stapling on blogs (I don't recall the MSDN documentation having been updated at the time but it is now), not only did I think that it was a mechanism to attach a feature to a site definition (it's
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The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best friend. However, if you plan on deleting your old site collection and create a new one (to test a RootWeb / Site Collection site definition), it's very
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Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions (and obviously Features but I played with them a lot prior to this). The reason for this is that I was looking at the "best" way to deploy artifacts for SharePoint
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I spent a little bit on time understanding Site Definitions lately, particularly the Publishing ones like BLANKINTERNET. One very frustrating thing is to make sense of all the WEBTEMP* configurations, the site definitions, the features, the features dependencies,
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