Tuesday, July 10, 2007

"An unexpected error has occurred" in MOSS 2007


Ever wondered what the heck is going on when you are popped with error "Unexpected Error" when developing on SharePoint, well this approach might make life simpler ,it made mine.

Make the following changes :

  • Open web.config of the site you are working on
  • search for "CallStack" attribute in safe mode section and change the value to "true"
  • Search for "CustomErrors" in System.web section and change the value to "false"


and take a sigh of relief atleast now you will have something on screen in developers language.

Gray Failures: What is it and how to detect one?

If you are reading this article , i guess you are curious to know about gray failures and different methods to detect gray failures.  Hopefu...