What is the concept of features in SharePoint?
Whenever we think about SharePoint think in terms of collaboration. One of the much needed features in collaboration is on-demand functionality / feature activation. Feature makes it easier to activate and deactivate functionality in SharePoint. Some points which you should note about features:- • All features needs to be copied in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\FEATURES\†directory. Microsoft Share reads the features from this directory. If you open the directory you can find pre-installed features by Share Point as shown below. • Every feature will have two XML files one is the ‘Feature.xml’ and the other is ‘ElementManifest.xml’. • Share point understands there is a feature by reading the feature XML file from the features folder. • All features are identified by a unique GUID number. • Features emit events which can be captured to write custom code. These events are captured in assembly which needs to be registered in a GAC. • S
