Travis Smith

SharePoint Online: Deployment Error ‘Install App for SharePoint’ Failed

Microsoft SharePoint, Development

When deploying a SharePoint app in SharePoint Online, you may receive the "all too helpful" error message: Error occurred in deployment step 'Install App for SharePoint': Failed to install App for SharePoint. Please see the output window for details. If you force the installation to continue, you will most likely see a Correlation ID error page. Then if you look at the Build Log within Visual Studio, you see another set of "all too helpful" information that may or may not ... Read More

Turning customerrors “off” in _layouts web.config for Debug Mode in SharePoint 2013

Microsoft SharePoint

To set a web application to debug mode... Open the web.config (C:inetpubwwwrootwssVirtualDirectories) and set: Debug="true" instead of the default of Debug="false" CallStack="true" instead of the default of CallStack="false" CustomErrors="Off" instead of the default of CustomErrors="On" I would have expected this to be enough to catch all errors but when I tried to delete a content type that was probably in use, instead of getting the detailed message I was expecting, I ended ... Read More