Alonso Robles » iis 7.0 http://alonsorobles.com technology, academia, and other tidbits from the trenches of a boggled mind Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:48:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Enabling the SharePoint Safe Mode Call Stack, Disabling Custom Errors and Enabiling Compilation Debugging http://alonsorobles.com/2008/06/09/enabling-the-sharepoint-safe-mode-call-stack-disabling-custom-errors-and-enabling-compilation-debugging/ http://alonsorobles.com/2008/06/09/enabling-the-sharepoint-safe-mode-call-stack-disabling-custom-errors-and-enabling-compilation-debugging/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:21:43 +0000 Alonso Robles http://blogs.importchaos.com/alonsorobles/?p=58 Continue reading →]]> When developling for SharePoint, I find myself always turning on the call stack and disabiling the custom errors in my development environment. It really does help when trying to debug run-time problems. I know there a few posts out there that describe how to do this, but I figured I would repost it as a reference for myself (which you are welcome to use).

Just remember that I do this in my development environment only. I don’t recommend changing the web.config files in any other environment.

Enabling the Call Stack

Set the value CallStack attribute in the SafeMode element in the web.config file to true.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <configuration>
  ...
  <SharePoint>
   <SafeMode MaxControls="200"
             CallStack="true"
             DirectFileDependencies="10"
             TotalFileDependencies="50"
             AllowPageLevelTrace="false">
    ...
   </SafeMode>
   ...
 </SharePoint>
 ...
</configuration>

Disabling Custom Errors

Set the value of the mode attribute in the customErrors element to Off.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <configuration>
  ...
  <system.web>
   ...
   <customErrors mode="Off" />
   ...
  </system.web>
 ...
</configuration>

Enabiling Compilation Debugging

Set the value of the debug attriute in the compilation element to true.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <configuration>
  ...
  <system.web>
   ...
   <compilation debug="true">
    ...
   </compilation>
   ...
  </system.web>
 ...
</configuration>

 Putting it all together

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <configuration>
  ...
  <SharePoint>
   <SafeMode MaxControls="200"
             CallStack="true"
             DirectFileDependencies="10"
             TotalFileDependencies="50"
             AllowPageLevelTrace="false">
    ...
   </SafeMode>
   ...
 </SharePoint>
 <system.web>
   ...
   <customErrors mode="Off" />
   ...
   <compilation debug="true">
    ...
   </compilation>
   ...
  </system.web>
 ...
</configuration>
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