Professional SharePoint® 2010 Branding and User Interface Design

Creating a SharePoint Solution and Feature

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36. From the ribbon, select the Page tab, click the Page Layout button from the Page section, and

then select Waffl eHome.aspx (see Figure 11-15).

FIGURE 11-15

You should now be able to bask in the glory of your custom branded site. It looks perfect.

Oh, wait. There’s a character in the footer that

didn’t render properly (see Figure 11-16). This

must be Murphy’s Law! No problem; this is an

easy fi x.

It would have been easy enough to end this example here and have it work fl awlessly. But in real

world situations, minor changes always seem to be required once the fi les have been deployed.

Updating the Solution

Updating your fi les once you’ve deployed them is made much easier thanks to Visual Studio 2010.

This example walks you through the process of making a very simple change and then deploying it

to your SharePoint site.

37. Go back to Visual Studio, and then open Waffles.master. On line 465 you’ll see the offend-

ing apostrophe character. Simply get rid of the one that’s there and replace it with a normal

one that you type in.

38. Right-click your project name in the Solution Explorer and click Deploy again. Refresh your

home page in the browser and all should be right with the world again. Be sure to publish

and approve the page, and the page should display as expected, as shown in Figure 11-17.

FIGURE 11-16

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