How do i deploy UAT and Development SharePoint solution on the same server ?

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Published on 2010-12-23T09:49:32Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 9:54 UTC
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I am working on a SharePoint 2010 Server and i have following items in my SharePoint solution

  • Couple of web parts
  • State Machine Work flow (which will be integrated to an Infopath form library)
  • Infopath task edit forms

Lets say this solutions is deployed to http://[SharePoint201Server]:[PortNumber-x]/

This is the only server i have (No extra server for UAT), and what ever has been done so far needs to be given for user acceptance testing (UAT). I may create one more site at http://[SharePoint201Server]:[PortNumber-y]/ for it.

My problme is that how do i maintain two copies of my source code ? I will have to continue development on the same set of source code for next UAT release. I simply can not create simple copies of the source code as it will have same Assembly name and feature id, etc..As if i do so, any changes on under Development source code would affect UAT assemblies.

One thing i can do is to create seperate projects for UAT and Development with different Features and Assembly names, but is not that too much of an unneccesory work ?

What can be the best approach in such situation ?

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