Webpart cannot be seen on page after adding. Error in ULS. Feature (wsp) = Webpart+ListInstance

Question

Need some help on this one.

We have deployed a webpart on LIVE server. On test server it worked fine.

Now on LIVE we cannot see the webpart after adding to page. ULS:

Failed to open the file 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Template\Features\MyWebPart_MyPart WebPart\Resources\Resources.en-US.resx'. 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

The specified path "" does not exist. 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

Failed to read resource file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Template\Features\MyWebPart_MyPart WebPart\Resources\Resources.en-US.resx" from feature id "ef587aa8-2178-4c7c-9f4d-38c3c94aefdc". 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

Failed to open the language resource for Feaef587aa8-2178-4c7c-9f4d-38c3c94aefdc keyfile Resources. 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

Failed to open the file 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Template\Features\MyWebPart_MyPart WebPart\Resources\Resources.resx'. 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

The specified path "" does not exist. 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

Failed to read resource file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Template\Features\MyWebPart_MyPart WebPart\Resources\Resources.resx" from feature id "ef587aa8-2178-4c7c-9f4d-38c3c94aefdc". 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

Failed to open the language resource for Feaef587aa8-2178-4c7c-9f4d-38c3c94aefdc keyfile Resources. 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

Localized resource for token 'Direction' could not be found for file with path: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Template\Features\MyWebPart_MyPart WebPart\MyShortcuts\schema.xml". 5be2859c-93a0-e0a4-d8bc-bbc416633918

The wsp contains 1 feature and 1 listinstance (rootwebonly='true') and 1 webpart. On activating the feature, the list gets created on the root web and webpart is added to the custom webparts.

This works good on the Dev Environment. What could be issue with LIVE?

UPDATE

The list schema.xml code (autogenerated):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<List xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint" Title="MyNewList" FolderCreation="FALSE" Direction="$Resources:Direction;" Url="Lists/MyNewList" BaseType="0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <MetaData>
    <ContentTypes>


    <ContentType ID="0x0100b4e36f6692f14571a6834abc75af286d" Name="ListFieldsContentType"><FieldRefs><FieldRef ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Name="Title" /><FieldRef ID="{c29e077d-f466-4d8e-8bbe-72b66c5f205c}" Name="URL" /><FieldRef ID="{305bf797-14b5-4a3b-b411-2353cb5e3afc}" Name="Archived" /></FieldRefs></ContentType><ContentTypeRef ID="0x01">
        <Folder TargetName="Item" />
      </ContentTypeRef><ContentTypeRef ID="0x0120" /></ContentTypes>
    <Fields>

    <Field ID="{fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247}" Type="Text" Name="Title" DisplayName="$Resources:core,Title;" Required="TRUE" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3" StaticName="Title" MaxLength="255" /><Field ID="{c29e077d-f466-4d8e-8bbe-72b66c5f205c}" Name="URL" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3" StaticName="URL" Group="$Resources:core,Base_Columns;" Type="URL" DisplayName="$Resources:core,URL;" Required="TRUE" /><Field Name="Archived" ID="{305bf797-14b5-4a3b-b411-2353cb5e3afc}" DisplayName="Archived" Type="Boolean" /></Fields>
    <Views>


    <View BaseViewID="0" Type="HTML" MobileView="TRUE" TabularView="FALSE">
        <Toolbar Type="Standard" />
        <XslLink Default="TRUE">main.xsl</XslLink>
        <RowLimit Paged="TRUE">30</RowLimit>
        <ViewFields>

        <FieldRef Name="LinkTitleNoMenu"></FieldRef></ViewFields>
        <Query>
          <OrderBy>

          <FieldRef Name="Modified" Ascending="FALSE"></FieldRef></OrderBy>
        </Query>
        <ParameterBindings>
          <ParameterBinding Name="AddNewAnnouncement" Location="Resource(wss,addnewitem)" />
          <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncements" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_LIST)" />
          <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncementsHowTo" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_ONET_HOME)" />
        </ParameterBindings>
      </View><View BaseViewID="1" Type="HTML" WebPartZoneID="Main" DisplayName="$Resources:core,objectiv_schema_mwsidcamlidC24;" DefaultView="TRUE" MobileView="TRUE" MobileDefaultView="TRUE" SetupPath="pages\viewpage.aspx" ImageUrl="/_layouts/15/images/generic.png" Url="AllItems.aspx">
        <Toolbar Type="Standard" />
        <XslLink Default="TRUE">main.xsl</XslLink>
        <JSLink>clienttemplates.js</JSLink>
        <RowLimit Paged="TRUE">30</RowLimit>
        <ViewFields>

        <FieldRef Name="LinkTitle"></FieldRef><FieldRef Name="URL" /><FieldRef Name="Archived" /></ViewFields>
        <Query>
          <OrderBy>

          <FieldRef Name="ID"></FieldRef></OrderBy>
        </Query>
        <ParameterBindings>
          <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncements" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_LIST)" />
          <ParameterBinding Name="NoAnnouncementsHowTo" Location="Resource(wss,noXinviewofY_DEFAULT)" />
        </ParameterBindings>
      </View></Views>
    <Forms>
      <Form Type="DisplayForm" Url="DispForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
      <Form Type="EditForm" Url="EditForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
      <Form Type="NewForm" Url="NewForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\form.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
    </Forms>
  </MetaData>
</List>

On dev as well as live environment, the List gets created. We can add data into the list. But the webpart wont appear? Webpart has code to query this list. There is no exception in the webpart code, but there is some "resources" error in ULS as pasted above.

Answer 1

Because there is no resources file specified in the call to the some resource key in your web part, SharePoint will look in the default places where you can place your resources files in the following order (given that your language is US-English).

You must check all resources strings in your web part also ULS should have some string like "Localized resource for token 'your resource key' could not be found for file with path: "...

There are 2 options to fix this problem.

1. Make sure that in your resources file, Resources.resx (with its variants of languages that you want), there is a "Direction" Key defined. (Possible values: LTR, RTL, none)
2. Fill the "DefaultResourceFile" property of your Feature with the name of the file of Resources that you want to use. This file must be in the path: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Resources