This post is for those, who have huge PnP Provisioning schema with hundreds or thousands of lines. Or for those, who want to organize PnP provisioning schema into isolated logical components (folders & files) instead of having a solid single schema file. When your PnP provisioning template grows, it becomes harder to search nodes, to add and update entities,...
Hi all! This is my revisited post from this one. I am going to show how we can call and test feature upgrade methods directly in visual studio. Lets start. We need visual studio and CKS Dev extensions. CKS Dev adds additional deployment steps into your sharepoint project. Among them Upgrade Solution. This command simply run Update-SPSolutioncmdlet(or may be....
Hi2all! Please, refer to my revisited post, it contains more solid and working example of upgrading features using visual studio. Today I'm going to explain how to use new SharePoint 2010 enhancement - feature upgrade. I'll create small example just to show how it works. First of all let's create new Visual Studio project and add new feature named...
Hi2all! Today I'm going to explain how you can easily extend your deployment tasks using Visual Studio and plugin CKSDEV for Visual Studio 2010. This plugin enhance VS with many custom SharePoint project items (SPI), add additional deployment configuration for your project and some other useful details. One of the most great possibilities that CKSDEV offer.....