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 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
