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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:30:37+00:00

We are about to undertake a rather large customization of SharePoint and I wanted

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We are about to undertake a rather large customization of SharePoint and I wanted to get some feedback prior to jumping in with both feet. One of the issues we are kicking the tires on is do we deploy the jQuery javascript library to the 12 hive directly (making it available in _layouts for each site etc.) or do we wrap it up in a feature and activate that feature for each site? I have also seen two projects on CodePlex that wrap it up in features and that could be a third option I guess.

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  1. options and commentary on http://www.sharepointblogs.com

    follow the link above or google it.

    Summary is that modifying the 12 hive directly is easy but unsupported (i.e. Microsoft reserves the right to destroy your environment at will)

    recommended option on above link is:

    Use the AdditionalPageHead Delegate Control (my favorite!)

    By providing the contents for the AdditionalPageHead Delegate Control that is used by all the out-of-the-box master pages, you can make sure the the jQuery library is loaded by all the SharePoint pages. The AdditionalPageHead Delegate Control allows multiple controls to provide contents, so it’s a great extensibility scenario. To accomplish this you need to build a web user control (ASCX file), that contains the script tag to load the jQuery library:

    <%@ Control Language="VB" ClassName="jQueryControl" %>
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