Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.

Error Message: Error occurred in deployment step 'Add Solution': Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.

One day I tried to deploy Images in _layouts folder using VS 2010. But I couldn't deploy Images because above error message fired in VS2010's error window. After half and hour I found one file named with blue_button (2).gif and renamed with blue_button.gif and deploy solution. Its working fine.

Resolution: To work around this problem, remove any parentheses in the names of SharePoint project items.

This link help me to solve the problem http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330922.aspx.

Happy Coding !!!

Posted by Manoj Patel
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8 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 9, 2011 at 1:04 AM

    Thanks, it was helpful!

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  2. AnonymousDecember 29, 2011 at 4:26 AM

    Thnx for the post,
    helped alot.

    same error wll get when a filename contains % symbol.
    removing the % from filename solved the problem.

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  3. Rahul GokaniFebruary 16, 2013 at 1:41 AM

    Thanks, I was trying to solve this thing from 1 whole day.

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  4. Sean RyanMarch 4, 2013 at 10:25 AM

    cheers - this helped me !

    MS should add a proper error message ...

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  5. Manoj PatelMarch 4, 2013 at 10:37 AM

    Yes, Sean Ryan.
    MS should add a proper error message so developer can easily solve without time consumption.

    Thanks...

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  6. AnonymousMay 9, 2013 at 10:30 AM

    @ in the name caused the same error

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2013 at 2:58 PM

    What if I need to have the @ in the filename? It worked fine in SharePoint Designer.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2014 at 2:34 AM

    Thanks very helpful indeed

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