Feature is always activated for features targeted at a web site (web)

Finding: Feature scoped at "web" is always activated when deploying using Visual Studio 2010.  Regardless of the "Activate on default" setting, - thanks Matthew.

SharePoint 2010 feature receiver not working

Problem: Feature receiver is not firing.

Hypothesis: It's hard to debug feature receivers but it can be setup, however my feature receiver was never getting called.  Implemntation via VS2010 must be wrong.

Resolution: I created a new feature and added a feature receiver, this was working.  The screen shot below shows the differnce in my features that was cause when I renamed the feature.

Deploying resources using features

Overview: Feature deployment has changed in SP2010 from MOSS. In MOSS we added files to the 12 hive and deployed them via a feature. In SP2010 the feature is package slightly differently and is marginally easier to create using VS2010 because of the tools. I have VS2010 and the CKSDev tools installed.

Steps to add an xslt file to your style library using a feature in SP2010:

1.> In VS2010 create a new Element;

2.> Under the element add and xslt, change the "Deployment Type" property;

3.> Move the elements to "Items in the Feature" default is "Items in the Solution";

4.> Modify the elements.xml file;

5.> Ensure the itemStyleCustom.xsl exists in the Xsl Style library.