Feature with Id 'guid' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope

Question

I have a WinForms project that acts as a Sharepoint 2013 Solution installer. It basically do some checking, create a sql database, adds and install a SP Solution and finally activates the feature.

The feature is scoped to "Site Collection" and the code to activate it is the following:

SPFeature feature = siteCollection.Features.Add(featureId.Value, true);

In some environments this works well. But in others this throws the following exception:

Feature with Id 'guid' is not installed in this farm, and cannot be added to this scope.

I've searched this exception and found some solutions that doesn't apply to my case.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

make sure the solution deployment job was finished before you activate the feature.

have a look at this blog: Programmatically waiting on SharePoint Solutions to deploy

Answer 2

Check to ensure the feature is actually installed on the farm. You can look in the 15 HIVE for the feature folder. In addition, you can look at the Get-SPFeature PowerShell Cmdlet output to see if it gets listed.