Missing Site Collection Feature Permission prevents custom web parts from being added to a page

Question

I created a custom web part hello world and deployed it to a local SharePoint 2010 (Developer laptop) successfully. However, when I try to add the web part to a page, it errors off. The error in the event viewer is this:

An unexpected error has been encountered in this Web Part. Error: A Web Part or Web Form Contrl on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. You don't have Add and Customize Pages permissions required to perform this action

I checked my permissions and I am a Site Collection Admin

I compared Site Collection Features with a co-worker and he has lots more features than I do I am suspecting it is a permission problem but because the feature is not displaying, I can't activate it to allow. How do I unhide (make visible) OR restore the features concerning adding custom web parts/pages? (I would like all the features that should be there on a default SharePoint Install.

Is there a list screen shots of the Site Collection Features that should be displayed somewhere at Microsoft web site?

Answer 1

I ended up flattening and reloading my laptop. Then installed SharePoint server 2010 and then Visual Studio 2012. This cleared-up the problem. I can now add a simple custom web page (hello world) to a SharePoint page on my laptop. I had opened up an incident with Microsoft but several days had gone by (gave them logs and config settings -but they hadn't identified a fix).. TO save time, I went ahead and took a drastic measure (e.g. installing OS, installing Sharepoint and then installing Visual Studio 2012 to get things working.

Answer 2

Maybe the SharePoint install on the Laptop didn't finalize the configuration. Try running the SharePoint Production Configuration. I had a similar issue once, and most of my features and service applications weren't setup successfully. I re-ran the Production Configuration and that Fixed my issue.