Deploying File Along With Feature

Few days back, I was working to create an Editor Web Part. The Editor Part contains a drop down and I need to populate it with an XML file (Links.xml) . I had given the file name in XmlDatasource, considering it would be picked, but Editor part gave me an error i.e. file not found.

After doing some research, I came to know a new deployment type ElementFile. This deployment type physically deploy the file along with the feature and we can get the path of the feature then.

SharePoint provides a method for this purpose i.e.. SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath. By using this method I found my XML file and me editor part started working. I hope this will help any other newbie  in SharePoint..... :)fF

14 HIVE AND OTHER SHAREPOINT 2010 DIRECTORIES

In this post I will list out some important folders used with SharePoint 2010 server. Lets Start with  installation, Configuration and its files, later in the post we will discuss about other 14 hive directories.

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss - This directory (or the corresponding directory under the Inetpub root on the server) is used as the default location for IIS Web sites.

C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0 - This directory is the installation location for SharePoint Server 2010 binaries and data. The directory can be changed during installation.

C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\WebServices - This directory is the root directory where SharePoint back-end Web services are hosted, for example, Excel and Search.

C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Data - This directory is the root location where local data is stored, including search indexes.

C:\ProgramFiles\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Logs – This directory is the location where the run-time diagnostic logging is generated.

14 hive folders : 

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14 -
This directory is the installation directory for core SharePoint Server files.

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ADMISAPI -
This directory contains the soap services for Central Administration. If this directory is altered, remote site creation and other methods exposed in the service will not function correctly.

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG -
This directory contains files used to extend IIS Web sites with SharePoint Server. If this directory or its contents are altered, Web application provisioning will not function correctly.

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS -
This directory contains setup and run-time tracing logs.

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\Policy -

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\UserCode -
This directory contains files used to support your sandboxed solutions.

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\WebClients -
This directory contains files related to the new Client Object Model.

Program Files\Common files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\WebServices -
This directory contains new wcf or .svc related files.

I hope this post will be helpful for you in understanding SharePoint 14  Hive folder hierarchy. Thank You,.