{"id":982,"date":"2012-04-24T19:16:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/?p=982"},"modified":"2012-04-24T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:20:47","slug":"quick-tip-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/quick-tip-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Update WSP File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SharePoint Short #8<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to extract and make changes to a WSP file &#8211; use any compression program (WinZip, WinRAR, etc.) to extract it to your machine and you&#8217;re good to go.  Once you&#8217;ve made your changes to the content, you can&#8217;t use the same compression tool to re-create the WSP. Also, to use the Makecab command line utility requires a DDF file, which won&#8217;t be part of the original WSP, so you&#8217;d need to re-create this.  There are tools out there for doing this, or if it&#8217;s a reasonably small WSP you could do it manually.<\/p>\n<p>A better solution for this type of scenario is to use a free tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.izarc.org\/\" title=\"IZArc\" target=\"_blank\">IZArc<\/a>.  Although similar to the other compression programs, this one also allows you to create CAB files, which after you rename to WSP you are able to deploy the updated solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SharePoint Short #8 It&#8217;s easy to extract and make changes to a WSP file &#8211; use any compression program (WinZip, WinRAR, etc.) to extract it to your machine and you&#8217;re good to go. Once you&#8217;ve made your changes to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/quick-tip-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[44],"tags":[45],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plx2I-fQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}