Don’t want people to see the “View All Content” link on the top of the Quick Launch? Hide it. Same goes for the recycle bin, the entire Quick Launch, that humongous header at the top of the page. Don’t like them? Hide them.

Todd Bleeker gave an extended presentation at Best Practices Conference this week on “Best Practices for Developing SharePoint Web Parts”. I slapped together a quick down and dirty web cam recording with UStream, embedded below.
Todd was kind enough to send me the entire slidedeck along with the resources from his presentation. Crank up the recording [...]

There are 3 more real world lessons learned that should be mentioned here. These problems are not limited simply to web parts and related files. Items as simple as images and as complex site definitions (the blueprints that detail the creation of SharePoint sites) are all effected by improper non-WSP deployment. Site definitions, field types, event receivers, workflow, features all must be deployed via WSP. In addition CSS files, ASPX pages, and Master Pages will need to be deployed via WSP if they are to be used farm wide. As a general rule, if the item in question will affect the entire farm it will likely need to be deployed via WSP.