SharePoint Development – Turn off those friendly errors

The error page displayed while you are doing development on SharePoint has a lot to be desired, while it is perfect for production it just doesn’t;t give you any information to go on while you are knee deep in development.

1. Open your SharePoint site’s web.config
2. Find the <SafeMode> Element and change value of the CallStack attribute to "true".
3. Find the <customErrors> element and change the value of the mode attribute to "Off".
4. Save the file.

Now when you get an error you’ll get the real thing, no icing on that error anymore.