From the monthly archives: May 2010

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’

By On May 26, 2010 · 1 Comment

Problem
An error related to feature activation is generated when deploying a sharepoint wsp package using visual studio 2010’s default deployment configuration -

Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’

Workaround 1
Use the “No Activation” deployment configuration and use Post-deployment command-line operations to manually activate your features since the retraction process will [...]

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STP uploaded by feature doesn’t appear on create page

By On May 6, 2010 · 1 Comment

Problem
STP list templates uploaded using a feature are not available to instantiate on create.aspx

Solution
When you upload a list template (STP) using a feature to the list template gallery ( _catalogs/lt ), you must set some attributes in order for the template to show up on the create.aspx page-

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Site Themes are not exact

By On May 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment

SharePoint 2010 doesn’t directly apply a site theme but instead generates its own colors based upon the theme. Let me explain by example-

The default top navigation bar in SharePoint 2010 uses ‘Accent 1’ from the site theme to determine the background color for each one of the navigation items. However, SharePoint doesn’t directly use [...]

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