"Could not instantiate control SharePoint:ProjectProperty" error message when you view a Windows SharePoint Services Web page (839048)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
- Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
SYMPTOMSAfter you edit a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services page
by using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, when you view the page in a Web
browser, you receive the following error message: Could
not instantiate control SharePoint:ProjectProperty
Web Parts
Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily
disable Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact
your site administrator. For example, you may receive this error
message after you edit the SharePoint Services default home page, and you
remove much of the existing content. CAUSEThis problem may occur if the FrontPage 2003 parser removes
a register directive from the page when the register directive is still
referenced in the TITLE element of the page. Typically, the FrontPage 2003
parser removes a register directive from the page when it detects that the last
reference to the register directive has been removed. However, the FrontPage
2003 parser only detects controls that are between the <body> tag and the
</body> tag of the page.
In each of the list form pages, there
are many references to the SharePoint:ProjectProperty register directive. One of them is the SharePoint:ProjectProperty control in the TITLE element. The parser does not detect this
control because it is outside the BODY element. The parser does detect other SharePoint:ProjectProperty references that are between the <body> tag and the
</body> tag. If you delete all the SharePoint:ProjectProperty references in the BODY element when you edit the page, the parser
does not find any references to the register directive because it does not
detect the SharePoint:ProjectProperty reference in the TITLE element. Therefore, the parser removes the
register directive although a reference still exists. This action breaks the
page.
Note A register directive is a reference to a control.WORKAROUNDTo work around this problem, remove the reference to the SharePoint:ProjectProperty control in the TITLE element. To do so, follow these steps:
- In FrontPage 2003, open the page that you want to
fix.
- On the View menu, click
Page.
- At the bottom of the document window, click
Code.
- Locate the line of code that is similar to the following:
<Title ID=onetidTitle>Home - <SharePoint:ProjectProperty Property="Title" runat="server" __Preview="Team Web Site"/></Title> - Edit the line of code so that it appears as follows:
<Title ID=onetidTitle>Home </Title>
- Save the page.
STATUSMicrosoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section of this article.MORE INFORMATIONWhen the FrontPage 2003 parser parses a page, it looks for
register directives that are not being referenced in the page and removes them.
This behavior permits FrontPage 2003 to clean up a Web Part's register
directive when you remove Web Parts from a page.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 7/27/2006 |
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Keywords: | kberrmsg kbBug KB839048 kbAudEndUser |
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