From time to time when I try to deploy a SharePoint project from Visual Studio 2005 I’m getting this error:
The feature name XXX* already exists in SharePoint. You need to rename the feature before solution deployment can succeed.
Solution
Whenever I get this (annoying) error I go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\ and remove the directory named XXX*. Sometimes then I need to restart Visual Studio or even log off and on again (on my Windows account).
17/102008
Sometimes restarting Visual Studio does the job.
* is the name of the module that should be deployed
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Bookmarked for future reference. TY
I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff
Why does Microsoft hate us so much?
Great Jarosław Dobrzański, You same my precious time by giving this answer.
thank you
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ?we leave it to you to decide?.
Hi. I followed ur steps above, however, i encountered another error.
The solution cannot be deployed. Directory “WebParts” associated with feature ‘d8c7e2e1-0027-424f-bda3-f47d363d97cc’ in the solution is used by feature ‘bb678af2-5e33-4dd1-a555-53f5f146c274′ installed in the farm. All features must have unique directories to avoid overwriting files.
How do i solve this error?
Thanks if you could help me.
Donna,
I can’t help you with that. This seems to be a different problem, which I haven’t experienced.
Jarek
Did you solve that issue Donna? I have the same type of problem.
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