Thursday, October 22, 2009

Deleting the trouble-maker Web Parts from your SharePoint Page

Sometimes, your custom coded web parts may crash your page and not even allow the page to get loaded. This could be very annoying when you have a production page working with several other web parts on it.

Due to this error, you are left with no option to get rid of that trouble-maker. You cannot go to the edit mode to delete the web part. But there is a workaround for this too.

Append this to the SharePoint site URL:
?contents=1

Ex: http://yoursiteurl/pages/default.aspx?contents=1

You may have to “Check Out” the page and then look for the trouble-maker Web Parts which crash landed your fully functional page. Go ahead and “Delete” them all.