Sharepoint – Updating webparts

I’ve talked about this before. When you create versions of webparts, you have two main solutions to update existing webparts : Create a binding redirect within the web.config file. Update each and every webpart instance of the collection site (or just the site). The first one is really the best solution : It’s simple and very fast. But, it applies to the whole Web Application. Sometimes, the client might want to only update the site collection or even the website. In this case, we need to apply the second solution : update each webpart. ...

July 6, 2009 · Florent Clairambault