I am picking up some coding for SharePoint at work again and starting to remember all the stuff I forgot. :-P
You have to love SharePoint error messages. For example, “an error has occurred”. I’m all for not intimidating the user but that is a bit terse. They could at least put the “technical information” somewhere on the screen for the poor guy who has to figure out the problem. Ah well, fortunately there is a fix to get much more information. You just need a modification to the web.config file for your web app.
Search for <customErrors mode=”on”> and replace it with <customErrors mode=”off“>.
Search for callStack=”false” (it should be in a SafeMode tag) and replace it with callStack=”true“.
Now you should get somewhat more helpful messages. Good luck!
