There are many blogs and posts on how to do this, but I found most of the were incomplete or missed out vital information. It took me hours of trial and error before I got it right.
The deployment method I've detailed here is very basic...there are far more professional ways to do it, but that's outside the scope of this article. I'd recommend, when using the deployment method below, to test the deployment to a test server first.
Pre-requisites
Access to a copy of Microsoft.Sharepoint.d
There are many blogs and posts on how to do this, but I found most of the were incomplete, or missed out vital information. It took me ages of trial and error before I got it right, so here goes:
Pre-requisites
Access to a copy of Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll
Visual Studio 2008
Initial Setup
Open Visual Studio 2008.
Go to New -> Project, and select a Windows Class Library.
Name the project 'OurWebpartLibrary'
Delete the Class.vb file.
Setting up the Properties Page
Proje
