How to add safecontrol without deploy solution

Question

i have one portal for my student and been developed by vendor. so i dont have the coding. my problem is when i want to import my webparts into the portal, I need to insert safecontrol into the webconfig.

do you know the best way to do this since i dont have the code. I try to modify at virtual directory/webconfig but an error occurs. Please help.. many thanks

Answer 1

Another way is to add an additional webconfig.*.xml file into the 12/CONFIG folder with contents similar to the following

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<actions>
  <add path="configuration/SharePoint/SafeControls">
    <SafeControl
      Assembly="My.Assembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0000000000000000"
      Namespace="My.Assembly"
      TypeName="TypeToMakeSafe"
      Safe="True" />
  </add>
</actions>

These files are read by SharePoint automatically to create the web.config file, and is the recommended way of making alterations to web.config.

Answer 2

You can either add the safecontrol entry manually (which you tried, please share your error) or programmatically using your own code, which is the preferred way.

For details see this article.