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SharePoint: Error occurred during deployment step activate features

August 5, 2011 Matt Thornton 5

Quick (annoying) thing. Whilst deploying a solution, you may see this error: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Key cannot be null. Parameter name: Key This is unhelpfully connected to your Content Type definitions where you have FieldRefs and you’re closing them with the long tag, as opposed to […]

Tip: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Object not set to an instance of an object

May 6, 2011 Matt Thornton 0

Yet another SharePoint vagary. If you’re trying to deploy a feature and get the unhelpful error: “Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’: Object not set to an instance of an object” check the scope of the feature that you’re trying to deploy. I added a new feature to a […]