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Rapid Tools for SharePoint is a set of developer tools that are dedicated to making SharePoint developers more productive. Rapid tools enables developers to build SharePoint custom applications using the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Traditionally using the SDL with the SharePoint platform has been a painful and awkward process, but with Rapid Tools for SharePoint application developers are now in full control of SharePoint development and deployment in a way that was not possible before.

Components

SPDeploy is a client side component that extends MSBuild to include targets that allow you to create a SharePoint solution file (.wsp) from a standard C# class library project inside Visual Studio. In addition, SPDeploy allows you to deploy your compiled wsp file to a remote SharePoint server. This allows you to develop locally and deploy to SharePoint remotely.

Provisioning Framework is set of APIs that allow you provision a SharePoint assets including Site Collections, Sites, Pages and Files.

Exception Display is a component allows you to control the SharePoint's unhandled exception behavior.

Data Cache allows you to cache data inside the SharePoint content database. This provides high performance data caching in web applications and also non-web applications, including SPtimer Jobs, stsadm command, WinForms applications and console applications.