When to use Feature Dependency in SharePoint 2010

- By Sachin Goyal

This blog post is about the Feature Dependency concept in SharePoint development. First of all, we need to know what Feature Dependency is?

Feature dependency implies that a feature is dependent on other feature to work. Let's say, there is a feature say F1 which deploys a list to a SharePoint site, and this list uses a lookup field from a master list. Let's assume that there is another feature, say F2, which deploys this master list in SharePoint site. Then we can conclude that F1 is dependent on F2, because without master list, lookup will give error.

Similarly, if a feature F3 deploys Custom Content Type, and another feature F4 deploys custom site columns used in content type, then we can say that F3 is a dependent feature on F4.

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