I have a Virtual environment where I build and test for SharePoint (WSS 3.0 on the virtual machine). I have built a web part using VS 2008 SP1 and SharePoint Web Part Extensions. I was able to deploy it through VS2008 by right clicking on my project and hitting 'deploy'. The web part worked and I was happy :).
I then copied the web part to server on my production farm which also has VS 2008 SP1 and SharePoint Web Part Extensions, but is running MOSS 2007 Enterprise. I did not copy the files, only the code so the generated guid was not messed with. I went ahead and tried the same right click->deploy, and it came up with the error:
"feature '3699db39-426c-4a57-8287-7
Now I know that that number is likely a unique id that really means nothing. Any ideas what I am missing to be able to deploy this? Is there a better way to deploy a Web Part to a farm? Thank you!
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You are 100% correct, thank you!
I think the easiest way is to deploy them manually on your test environment (so you dont have to do the command line installs all the time) and then make a .cab file for install on a production environment (that's what the SDK said and it worked perfectly!
Here is how I ended up doing it:
http://naspinski.net/post/
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by: tedbillyPosted on 2008-08-29 at 20:09:11ID: 22350473
You should be using the Sharepoint Deployment Solution architecture. Manually deploying to production is a bad practice. Manually deployed customization is not included in backups. Download the Sharepoint SDK and read about building Sharepoint Deployment Solutions.