Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Deploying a Custom Solution with Features

Let’s consider the following scenario: A custom solution needs to be deployed to CompanyABC SharePoint Portal. The solution has two features: a content type and custom web part, as shown in Figure 7.7.

Figure 7.7. The structure of custom ABC-Solution. It contains two features: a web part HelloWorld and a custom ContentType.

Here is the series of steps you need to do to install the ABC feature to a SharePoint environment.

The first step of this procedure is to install the solution from the file system to central solution farm store. Use this command (use the path where you have a .wsp file):

Add-SPSolution ...