Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The field with Id {GUID} defined in feature {GUID} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite.

Hi all,

In SharePoint 2010, This error might come when you deploy and activate Feature using Visual Studio 2010. Deployment works file  but in activation process it gets stuct and throw error.

Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The field with Id {GUID} defined in feature {GUID} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite.

When I googled I found very good solution from Sandeep Snahta Blog.

http://snahta.blogspot.hk/2011/10/error-in-activate-features-from-visual.html

As suggested in this blog, there is two option to overcome this error;

1. Close VS2010 and restart again.

Or

2. Kill VSSHost4 Process either through Task Manager or Via Power Shell Command

   stop-process -processname vssphost4 -force



Thanks,
Jayant Sharma