The goal of this article has been to explain the definition of a feature, its make-up, and deployment. We deliberately did not deploy anything more than an empty shell yet, to make it obvious where the described actions leave off and the development and functionality of a useful feature begin. In the next article we will cover some of the Declarative Functionality, Programmatic Functionality and ASP.NET / .NET interoperability by way of other deployed components.

I would like to thank Microsoft for the development of such a wide and robust development environment, and Ted Pattison, John Holliday and The Ted Pattison Group for the work they have done in bringing to light so much of the SharePoint platform by way of publications and courses.