SharePoint error handling (crank up the volume)
When developing with MOSS sometimes you come across a point in time where the page renders "Error: An unexpected error has occurred". This is absolutely pointless for a developer who really needs to know what has gone wrong. There is however a way to crank up the volume on error reporting for MOSS (but only do it in your development environment).
- Edit the web.config file for the site.
- Look for "CallStack" in the SafeMode section, change the value from false to true.
- Look for "CustomErrors" in System.Web section, change the value from On to Off.
And vola you now have full stack traced .Net error messages instead of the usless "Something - but I am not telling you what - went wrong" message.