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Bad naming - Sharepoint Features

Gaaah! Who, in the name of all that is holy, thought that naming a feature in Sharepoint "Features" would be a good idea? Sure, it describes it, but it also describes practically everything else. It's impossible to find on Google and makes conversation sound more like a Marx Brothers sketch then a technical conversation.

Why? Why? Why?

Posted: Feb 08 2007, 09:51 AM by Avner Kashtan | with 4 comment(s)
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svdoever said:

Search for terms like "feature.xml" and "ElementManifest" and life isn't that bad.

Don't forget to search on http://www.google.com/codesearch.

I must say that the new SharePoint feature concept is a great new feature to build new features for the future;-)

# February 8, 2007 7:07 AM

Avner Kashtan said:

See what I mean? It's even worse when I have to give a lecture to people who don't know Sharepoint about it, and have to struggle my way through explaining that Features are a feature to add features. Bah.

The concept, though is great. Solutions are great too. A pity there's no decent design-time support yet - does anyone know what's going on with the VS extensions? The November beta is too unstable for me.

# February 8, 2007 7:34 AM

Oskar Austegard said:

If you do your search at http://sharepointsearch.info, it gets a LITTLE better, since it only searches SharePoint blogs and sites...  But yes, I have cursed MS' naming choices on a frequent basis.

Features, Solutions, Lists.  The only thing worse is trying to find information on My Site, and MOSS 's support for wikis and blogs.

# May 8, 2007 3:11 PM

Code Zest said:

Developer Poetry Series: SharePoint How Sad Are We

# November 22, 2008 1:10 AM
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