Tag: Sharepoint Designer

SharePoint Designer Cached Credentials and Sorry, another account from your organization is already signed in

Scenario You open SharePoint Designer and load a site from a tenancy for the first time, you are prompted for credentials and the site opens. SharePoint Designer caches those credentials so that you’re not promted to enter them again. You now wish to open the site again in SharePoint Designer using different credentials, but when you … Continue reading SharePoint Designer Cached Credentials and Sorry, another account from your organization is already signed in

SharePoint: Adding Custom Web Part to Page Layout causes No Parameterless Constructor Exception

After adding a custom web part to a publishing page layout using SharePoint Designer, I tried creating a page instance using the page layout and was presented with the following exception; Exception type: MissingMethodException Exception message: No parameterless constructor defined for this object. at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(…)    at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(…)    at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(…)    at System.Activator.CreateInstance(…)    … Continue reading SharePoint: Adding Custom Web Part to Page Layout causes No Parameterless Constructor Exception

SharePoint Designer 2010 – “Installation of this Package Failed”

Trying to install the 32 bit version of SharePoint Designer, or the 64 bit version, resulted in a dialog error message saying; The installation of this package failed. With nothing in the event log shedding any light I tried re-downloading the installers, with the same result. My environment was Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard … Continue reading SharePoint Designer 2010 – “Installation of this Package Failed”