SharePoint Napa: couldn’t be downloaded error when opening in Visual Studio

Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:09 PM by CoreyRoth

Napa is a great way to get started building SharePoint 2013 apps with Office 365.  It provides you an easy-to-use editor that allows you make changes to your app right in your browser.  One nice feature it has is to allow you to take what you built and import it as a Visual Studio project.  This is done using the Open in Visual Studio link at the bottom of the page.

NapaOpenInVisualStudioButton

If you are editing this in Internet Explorer on a server operating system such as Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012, you might encounter the following error.

xxxxx couldn’t be downloaded.

NapaCantDownloadProject

As you might guess this is caused by a browser setting.  You can use another browser of course, but if that’s not an option, you can fix this by unchecking the Do not save unencrypted pages to disk checkbox.

NapaEncryptedPages

Once you uncheck the box, try the download again and it should work for you.

NapaDownloadSuccessful

This is simple to fix so if you run into this issue I hope this helps.

Comments

# SharePoint Daily » Blog Archive » Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part; Outlook.com: Fighting for the Workplace; Free Microsoft eBooks

Pingback from  SharePoint Daily  » Blog Archive   » Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part; Outlook.com: Fighting for the Workplace; Free Microsoft eBooks

# Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part; Outlook.com: Fighting for the Workplace; Free Microsoft eBooks

Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:57 AM by SharePoint Daily

Microsoft is building a robotic " big brother " to watch over you at work. - Dooley Top News

# The Dreaded Couldn’t Be Download Web Part Export Issue In SharePoint | Mark Kamoski's Blog

Pingback from  The Dreaded Couldn’t Be Download Web Part Export Issue In SharePoint | Mark Kamoski's Blog

# Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part; Outlook.com: Fighting for the Workplace; Free Microsoft eBooks – Bamboo Solutions

Pingback from  Build a SharePoint 2013 Web Part; Outlook.com: Fighting for the Workplace; Free Microsoft eBooks – Bamboo Solutions

Leave a Comment

(required)
(required)
(optional)
(required)