During solution deployments & Feature activation, I am facing an on/off issue where the system is unable to find & load the FeatureReceiver class. Mostly it is file not found exception (even though the assembly is there in the GAC). I checked over the net and this seems it a common issue with solutions (wsp) packaging DLL to be GACed. (But, no one has any clue or solution!)
What is the recommendation and guideline to fix this issue? We are setting the flag to reset IIS in my solution definition - but that does not seem to help. The issue is more prevalent in multi-M farms.
Thanks
This is a general problem in SharePoint in cause of the "SharePoint 2010 Timer Service". Because this one caches the wsp's and during the deployment or feature activation old references will occurres this error!
So try the following link. I hope this solution will help you.
http://msscorner.de/en/2011/10/27/sharepoint-deployment-failed-to-create-receiver-object-from-assembly/
First try the solution linked to by Falco...
If that does not help, try this:
Open the event-receiver file created by sharepoint
Compare the GUID above the event-receiver-class with the one stated in the stack-trace "...class=7g3562-438dn4...
If it does not match:
Copy the content of the class
Delete the file
Create a new file by right-clicking the feature -> add new event reciever
Pass the content
First thing, you dont need to give iisreset as your wsp deployment would have already done that.
Can you check if the assembly name, version, public token specified in the feature.xml is same at the actual assembly that is deployed in gac? I am thinking there is mismatch in assembly signature
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I add licensed select.pdf.dll to my SharePoint project. This dll file has added in both the visual studio reference and the package section(Deploy target as 'Global Assembly Cache (GAC)').
I was not able to deploy my solution to my sharepoint development server, with the error message
“Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Error: Cannot add the specified assembly to the global assembly cache: Select.Pdf.dll.”
I have googled the problem, someone cannot deploy because the .dll they want to deploy already existed in %windir%\assembly folder and the .dll is locked by other process.
VS2015 build error: Cannot add the specified assembly to the global assembly cache
https://devramblings.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/error-cannot-add-the-specified-assembly-to-the-global-assembly-cache/
However, the "Select.Pdf.dll" I want to deploy has never been deployed before, the %windir%\assembly and %windir%\Microsoft.Net\assembly folders do not have same name dll. file in them.
I have tried to restart VS, and reset IIS. the problem still existed.
Is there any way to solve the problem? Thank you.
You need to add the relevant .dep files also. When you add your assembly to the advanced section of the package you can add Class Resources at the bottom of the dialog. In my case I had to add Select.Tools.dep and Select.Html.dep before I could deploy my sharepoint solution.
#Mundi's answer works, only clarification is that for us, only selecting Select.Html.dep was enough. It is to be noted that you have to specify that you want to view all files (not just .dll) when selecting the additional Class Resources.
Alternative solution that worked for development scenario (but not advisable for production) is using appropriate gacutil.exe to your .net version.
I have somehow got into a strange situation with my CRM system.
A plugin I have developed is not getting updated correctly when the solution is imported. When I choose to maintain the customisations the plugin updates dont get applied, but when I choose to overwrite customisations the steps get doubled up and so the plugin gets fired twice.
Has this happened to anyone else? How do I stop this from happening?
Thanks
I've had a similar situation where I had plugins registered twice after importing.
I believe the way I solved this was:
Use the plugin registration tool to remove the plugin from the server you are deploying to.
Reimport the solution.
I can't see you doing any major damage here, but I would suggest backing up the server first because I'm not 100% on this one.
Are you assigning a strong name to the assembly? I've seen this kind of thing happen in CRM 4.0. If you don't assign a strong name with a key, CRM doesn't seem to see that it is the same assembly.
If you deploy the plugins using the plugin registration tool, solution deployment will duplicate all of the steps as it does not recognise the deployed plugin steps as their ID is changed.
If plugin assembly is deployed without the steps, you've forgotten to add the steps into the "Sdk Message Processing Steps" section of the solution.
#JamesWood approach will always work but is very heavy handed for a production environment, an IIS Reset and restart of the MSCRM services (in services.msc) usually clears any cached plugin assembly, while a redeployment should only be needed/used in dire situations.
This is my first azure project and I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
I'm trying to get some configuration inside an MVC 3 webrole and for this I'm using:
RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(KeyName)
When I run the application on the emulator i get his error:
BC30451: 'RoleEnvironment' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.
I tried to add the full namespace like this:
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue(KeyName)
And I get this error:
BC30456: 'ServiceRuntime' is not a member of 'WindowsAzure'.
However, I can access the RoleEnvironment inside the "OnStart" event of the WebRole class.
So, is it the expected behavior? If yes, how am I supposed to read configuration through the whole project?
Thanks in advance;
Have you added a reference to the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime assembly in your MVC project?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsazure.serviceruntime.roleenvironment.aspx
I started a new solution based on seanost suggestion and it worked well, so I figured the problem wasn't VS. After a few try and errors I finally found a solution, I just don't have an explanation for it :-)
Under my MVC project I have a folder called "App_Code".
Since i come from web forms development I'm use to the name so I created this folder to keep some classes. If I try to access "RoleEnviroment" from a class inside this folder the project compiles but won't even open, no matter what I try to access it will throw the same error.
If I rename the folder or move the files to another folder (let's say "Code"), it just works.
As I said before, I just don't know why it happens (and it doesn;t really matter now :-)
FYI, if you're using Visual Studio's Azure templates, references to the following namespaces are included by default, so it's not necessary to set Copy Local to true:
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient
To make sure Visual Studio and the SDK is installed correctly, you should be able to do the following: Create a new MVC3 Azure project, add a using directive for the ServiceRuntime library in your Home controller, then add the following code in the Index action:
ViewBag.configValue = RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString");
return View();
Then, add the following Razor syntax in the View:
<p>#ViewBag.configValue;</p>
And you should get the following result in your browser:
UseDevelopmentStorage=true
The following issue just crept up on me. The steps mentioned below had worked just fine until about 2 days ago.
When I deploy a update to a solution (of web parts) to a SharePoint 2010 server I don't see the update. The solution does get installed, but from what I can tell the installed web parts are over a month old (nothing new is installed).
I do the following steps through PowerShell:
retract the solution from the web app
remove the solution
add the solution
install the solution to the web app
I have tried restarting the Web App, restarting IIS and also restarting the server. Nothing seems to work.
I notice that after I remove the solution it does get removed from the GAC. After I add/install it the solution does reappears in the GAC.
Am I missing something? Am I overlooking a step that I should be doing? Something to try?
I never deactivated/reactivated the Feature.
After following the same steps I mentioned in my question I just deactivated, then reactivated, the Feature and everything started to working fine.
This is an easy thing to I can start to implement with my solution updates. However, why did I never have to do this step before?
In general, you should check your ULS log to see which version of your solution is running. If you see the old one, then you can be sure that your activated site feature is still bound to the old version. In this case you have to Inactivate the site feature indeed to loose that tie and then Activate to bind to the new one (it appears Activate always ties the site feature to the newest version of the solution).
Maybe you had not to do this earlier, because you did not change the version number of your solution, appearing as the same version in GAC on the server. In this case you had your site feature already pointing to the correct version of your solution, therefore didn't have to reset the feature.
You have probably checked, but just in case. Make sure that the powershell script is not adding a month old package.
Is the problem in the web part code or the configuration? The configuration usually unghosts itself sooner or later and refuses to update from the solution - you can update the file in the gallery manually if anything has changed there. For most updates there won't be any changes because existing web parts won't get updates applied anyway - they will use new code but old configuration.
If the problem is the code itself, does the assembly appear to the system to be unchanged? All the hardcoded full name references in SharePoint config files mean that usually you are deploying a new assembly but with the same version numbers. This can mean that the system doesn't bother making the update. I have found it very useful to update AssemblyFileVersion (which does not affect binding) on every build and have a page in _layouts that displays the file versions of all the loaded assemblies so I know exactly what is running.
I created a code behind file for a custom master page in visual studio. I hooked everything up manually; safe control and custom cas policy. Everything works great!
I then wanted to put this into a sharepoint solution using WSPBuilder for better deployment. I created WSP solution, added my class file and changed the output directory to the bin folder. I then built the solution and deployed it, making sure to change the page directives on the master page to reflect the new assembly name.
Now when I go to view the sharepoint site I get an error stating Security Exception error stating
‘Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers.’
This has me stumped as it works as a visual studio class file deployed to the bin directory of the website.
However when I put this into a sharepoint solution it breaks! I tried adding
‘[assembly: System.Security.AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers]’
to the AssemblyInfo.cs but this hasn’t helped.
Anyone else experinced this or have any advice?
EDIT: I should also mention that the code behind is trying to access a sharepoint list.
Don´t you still have to include the SafeControls entry in order for it to work, like:
<SafeControl Assembly="[FullAssembly Name]"
Namespace="[YourMasterPageNamespace]"
TypeName="*"
Safe="True" />
or in WSPBuilder config:
<add key="BuildSafeControls" value="True" />
Never seen this.. but I suspect not many people have created codebehinds to the master pages in SharePoint (Microsoft doesn't too!).
I don't know what you are trying to build but I'd probably implement it using a server control that is included on the master page.
AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers has always fixed it for my server controls.
What is the trust in your web.config file set to? Try Full.
Are you calling a third party assembly?
I ran into a situation recently that I was using a third party assembly and it did not have AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers in its code. When I tried to use the assebmly, it would fail.
Are you sure that the assembly has been deployed to bin and no to GAC by accident? If there are two assemblies the one in GAC takes precedence.
You might try checking that you are using the fully qualified five part name including the correct public key token and namespace for your assemblies.