Only people picker dialogs types can be used with dialog. The type should be configured as safecontrol in this site

Question

I have a package which deploys a custom people picker dll. It also should add the safe control entry to the web.config but its not doing it.

<Assemblies>
    <Assembly Location="AA.PeopleEditorAD.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache">
      <SafeControls>
        <SafeControl Namespace="AA.PeopleEditorAD.Controls" TypeName="*" />
      </SafeControls>
    </Assembly>
    <Assembly Location="MyCompany.HomeWebTemplate.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" />
  </Assemblies>

I cleaned, rebuild, repackage, and then update the solution but it didnt update the web.config.

So I went ahead and I did it manually.

<SafeControl Assembly="AA.PeopleEditorAD, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=77c336623989b56c" Namespace="AA.PeopleEditorAD" TypeName="*" Safe="True" SafeAgainstScript="False" />

well, this didnt work either, everytime I try to use the custom people picker I got the error: Only people picker dialogs types can be used with dialog. The type should be configured as safecontrol in this site.

I also tried removing the safecontrol and adding it back.

Update 1: Full exception in the log

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPInvalidPropertyException: Only PickerDialog types can be used with the dialog. The type should be configured as a safecontrol in this site.    at Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.Picker.OnLoad(EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Answer 1

It looks like you mixed up the namespace when you added it manually to your web.config file. You do not have the .Controls namespace specified in your packaging file above. Try this:

<SafeControl Assembly="AA.PeopleEditorAD, 
   Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, 
   PublicKeyToken=77c336623989b56c" 
   Namespace="AA.PeopleEditorAD.**Controls**" 
   TypeName="*" 
   Safe="True" 
   SafeAgainstScript="False" /> 

Also, when adding safecontrol setting to the manifest in Visual Studio, you need to specify the assembly as well as the namespace:

<SafeControls>
    <SafeControl Assembly="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$"
        Namespace="AA.PeopleEditorAD.Controls" 
        TypeName="*" />
</SafeControls>