Install your Sharepoint solution files from windows explorer

Once upon a time 

I was listening to my favorite Sharepoint podcast I think it was this show. They were talking about the different tools you have to have in your bag as a Sharepoint developer, most of them was not new to me but I think it was Andrew Connell who were talking about a tool/utility that extended the Windows Explorer context menu, so you can install a Solution file (wsp) from the menu.

Let me get one

That sounds like a great utility, so I immediately googled for a tool like that, but I was unable to find anyone else who had done that, might be because I can't find the right search terms but anyhow, I'm not giving up so easily so I made the utility myself.

My primary goal was that no assemblies or code should be deployed so the solution is only a modification to the registry.

Download the registry file here, it's tested on Windows 2003 Server R2 and Windows 2008 Server.

wsp solutions.reg (832,00 bytes)

The result