Updating the docicon.xml File with a Feature

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a-foton » Updating the docicon.xml File with a Feature — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:13:55 GMT

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re: Updating the docicon.xml File with a Feature

Yeshwanth — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:35:14 GMT

Hi Steve,

Will this work for all the servers on the farm or does it works on only the server where you deploy the feature?

-Yesh

re: Updating the docicon.xml File with a Feature

joshgavant — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:07:20 GMT

Steve,

This seems to only effect one server randomly. Probably could write some code to have it cycle through the servers. Thanks for the ideas in any case.

~Josh

re: Updating the docicon.xml File with a Feature

Lars Nielsen — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:56:24 GMT

Thanks Steve this is a great idea and very useful code for updating XML files. In the future if the DOCICON.XML file is overwritten by a service pack or update, you just de-activate the feature before applying the patch and activate again afterwards. You could use this code as a basis to wrap up all the SharePoint customisations into a feature that can be de-activated and re-activated after each patch.

The SDK has a good article on this here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa978104.aspx

Note that if you use a special icon GIF with an anonymous access site, you need make sure that the permissions on the GIF file are set to inherit from the parent. Presumably that happens anyway if the GIF is deployed as part of a solution - so if you wrapped this feature into a solution along with the required GIF icons, it would work well.

Yesh, in answer to your question, you don't deploy a feature to a particular server, you deploy it across the farm so it will work on all the servers.

re: Updating the docicon.xml File with a Feature

Steve Goodyear — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:42:16 GMT

Try moving the logic from the FeatureActivated to the FeatureInstalled event instead. I believe this executes on each server.

http://pseale.com/blog/changingthepdficoninsharepoint.aspx

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