How to Deploy MasterPages.

Today i'll Blog how to deploy Masterpages after development.

I had this issue i developed Masterpage for my project and we need to deploy that to the different boxes like Sit(system integration testing),UAT(user acceptance testing)and Production.

So i got a chance to look in to this , because i done the masterpage development which is very interesting part but the question is how to deploy the developed one.

So here is the answers for this:

1)To create the Master page using sharepoint designer in each individual box.This makes the masterpage to be stored in the contentdatabase.(not supported as work is repetetion)

2)Creating the masterpage in 12 folder. and adding file tag in the module tag in the file provisionedFiles.xml

Using this approach the masterpages gets visible when we create new site collection.

3)Making a Feature.

I am going with Feature as we have already production site where we have to activate the feature once in the site collection.