The feature name XXX already exists in SharePoint. You need to rename the feature before solution deployment can succeed.
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 FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb server extensions12TEMPLATEFEATURES and remove the directory named …
adminParser Error Message: This page allows a limit of 200 controls, and that limit has been exceeded.
By default, web.config of SharePoint (should be there: C:InetpubwwwrootwssVirtualDirectories80) defines the maximum number of controls as 200. Should you define more on a page you’ll probably get an error similar to this:
Solution
In order to fix it, edit this web.config. Find configurationSharePointSafeMode tag and change the MaxControls attribute to a bigger number. Once you do this, reload the …
Problems with UpdatePanel on SharePoint
If you want to add some AJAX flavour to your ASPX pages running on SharePoint you need to perform a few actions:
- install ASP.NET AJAX on servers in your farm
- extend SharePoint web.config file with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
- add ScriptManager either in the master page you’re using (prefferable) or in all pages that employ AJAX
The above listed steps are …
How to configure log4net on SharePoint?
Recently I had to add logging feature to the SharePoint project I’ve been developing. I had to use log4net. I followed my friend’s advice but for some reason it wouldn’t work in my case. I didn’t get any errors or exceptions. Simply nothing was logged to the file, which by the way would not be even created. All in all …