Ted Pattison says "packaging and deploying your WSS development efforts using solution packages is a best practice, and knowing how to do this should be considered an essential skill."
There are numerous ways to package SharePoint solutions, from manual creation of manifest.xml and diamond directive files (DDFs), to Visual Studio projects that use the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005/2008 Extensions (VSeWSS).
There are numerous ways to package SharePoint solutions, from manual creation of manifest.xml and diamond directive files (DDFs), to Visual Studio projects that use the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005/2008 Extensions (VSeWSS).
