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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 …

Parser 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:

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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 …