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Friday, January 7, 2011

Failed to extract the cab file in the solution error in SharePoint

When deploying SharePoint solutions, you may encounter an error message like:
Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.
(FYI, the wsp solution file is a cab file. just try to rename *.wsp to *.cab)
There are two reasons that I found causing this kind of error:
  1. Having some special characters in files names in the solution, in my case it was "(" and ")".
  2. Having two DLLs with the same name even if one is in the GAC folder and the other in bin folder, this happened in my case by mistake, but it's good to know anyway.
Have a nice deployment, without uninformative error messages.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Articles I read in 2010

New year, new list :)
Seems I'm good at keeping old habits, I've even created the draft of 2011's list sending this post.

2009 list can be found here
2008 list can be found here
2007 list can be found here