Upgrading Features

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation provides new members that make it possible for you to upgrade custom Features through versioning and declarative upgrade actions. As a result, you can perform the following kinds of modular upgrades to Features in SharePoint Foundation:

• Define upgrade definitions for new Feature versions.

• Provision a list instance as part of a Feature upgrade.

• Create separate upgrade action sets, based on the Feature version, that remove different sets of files.

• Apply settings to site collections where a particular Feature is activated.

In This Section

• Feature Upgrade Overview

• Feature Upgrade Object Model

• Feature.xml Changes

• Best Practices for Using Feature Versions

• How to: Add Elements to an Existing Feature

• How to: Use Upgrade Code to Activate a Feature with Dependencies

See Also

Concepts

Using Features in SharePoint Foundation