Summary

In the real world, packaging and deployment is a big part of any SharePoint project. The new tooling in Visual Studio makes it much easier for developers to create packages automatically to manage our custom solutions, but in all but the simplest projects, some aspect of coding will be involved in deploying a SharePoint solution. In this chapter, you’ve seen how to make use of the feature framework to deploy solutions as a series of modular components. You also learned about the new feature upgrade functionality in SharePoint 2010 that will allow users to upgrade older versions of our applications seamlessly.