Project DescriptionReusable Visual Studio project template for SharePoint designers and developers to easily deploy branding files to a SharePoint 2010 environment via a WSP.
Version 1.0 is targeted at people who are
starting to transition from SharePoint designer to Visual Studio or people who are
starting SharePoint branding with Visual Studio. Hence it only includes the deployment of most common branding files.
Where can I ask questions ?
When can I use it?
- Porting branding files to SharePoint in a WSP
- Porting files from SharePoint designer to a WSP package
- When you want to use a real source control system like SVN for your branding files
- Getting started with SharePoint branding on Visual Studio
- Learn how branding files are deployed with a WSP
What will it deploy?
As of Version 1.0
- Master pages
- Custom page layouts
- CSS files
- Images
- Javascript files
- Item styles
How to use SP UI VS Template?
- Download the code
- Copy paste your branding files
- Reference the SharePoint site
- Right click and Deploy or create a WSP
What needs to Change?
(Required)
- be sure to alter the reference to files (CSS, JS, Images) from where it's getting deployed
(Optional)
- Rename word "custom" throughout the project to anything you like (e.g. - "CityHotelBranding" )
Where dose files gets deployed?
(Note - "custom" needs to be replaced with what you replaced to e.g. "CityHotel")
- Master pages -> to the master pages gallery
- Custom page layouts - > to the page layouts gallery
- CSS files - to Style Library -> Custom -> CSS -> CSSFileName.css
- Images - to Style Library -> Custom -> Images -> ImageFileName.png
- Javascript files - to Style Library -> Custom -> Images -> JSFileName.js
- Item styles - to Style Library -> XSL Style Sheets -> ItemStyleFileName.xsl