Thursday, August 7, 2008

Enable Detailed Error Messages in MOSS 2007 and WSS3.0

To get more detailed messages in MOSS 2007 and WSS3.0 during development process, user can enable debugging in the web.config file for the SharePoint web application:

SafeMode MaxControls="200" CallStack="true" DirectFileDependencies="10" TotalFileDependencies="50" AllowPageLevelTrace="false"

And:

customErrors mode="Off"

This should make development process so much pleasant and more efficient, by getting rid of "An unexpected error has occurred" error, which is useless to the developers.

Note: It's not recommended to have debugging enabled on the production server, if possible, please do all your debugging on the development server(s)