I am performing an upgrade from a 2007 environment to a 2010 environment and am having an issue with content types.
In the 2007 environment, there was a custom content type from our codebase in a subweb for a department news article that they didnt want to be used elsewhere. However, the requirements for this have changed and they want this content type used elsewhere.
The content type itself is pretty straightforward, as it inherits from the Page content type. In my new codebase, I have the same content type, but when I go to deploy the project, I get the error:
Error occurred in deployment step "Activate Features". The content type with Id "0xBlah" defined in feature {feature} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite.
I get this error not only with existing content types, but brand new ones aswell.
Upon searching this error, i get conflicting solutions none of which work. To give examples, I have changed the deployment steps of the wsp, attempted to activate through the ui, through powershell (even force doesnt work), restarted the server, retracted then deployed then closed VS only to reopen and try again, etc.
Has anyone successfully corrected this sort of issue?