The basic 5 steps of how to crea
6 basic steps of how to create a WebPart in
SharePoint
Introduction
Step 1:- Create the Webpart
Step 2 :- Copy the compile DLL to the virtual directory in the BIN folder.
Step 3:-
Make entry of the WebPart in to web.config file.
Step 4:- Add it to the WebPart
gallery
Step 5:- Add the WebPart to
site pages.
Step 6:- View the WebPart
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The first step is to create the WebPart. Below is the code snippet of a webPart.
So we need to reference the ‘WebParts’ , the custom webpart class should inherit
from ‘WebPart’ class and finally we need to override the ‘CreateChildControls’
method with our custom implementation.
The second step is to copy the compiled DLL in
the virtual directory of the sharepoint site.
You can get the virtual directory from the IIS from home directory tab in IIS.
For instance the current website is hosted on the sharepoint 80 virtual site
which is actually located at ‘C: \Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80’.
So now let us browse to ‘C: \Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\bin’
directory and copy the DLL in the bin folder.
Now that we have copied the DLL to ‘bin’ folder
, we need to make a ‘SafeControl’ entry in the ‘Web.Config’ file of the virtual
directory.
So now let’s browse to ‘C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80’ , open the
web.config file and add the class library name in the ‘SafeControls’ section of
the web.config file. Below code snippet shows the same in a visual manner.
Now that we have added the WebPart in the ‘web.config’ file its time to make it
available in the web part gallery. So click on Site settings then click
webparts Click new button, you should see the figure shown below.
You can also see the webpart which you recently added is seen the gallery. To
make it available click the check box and click populate gallery.
You should now see your webpart ( for this
context it is SimpleLabelWebPart) in the WebPart gallery.
Ok so now that our WebPart is available in the
gallery it’s time to add this WebPart to a SharePoint page. So goto the page
where you want to add this WebPart , click on the site action menu and click
edit page as shown in the below figure.
On the page you should see a ‘Add a webpart’
button , click on it and it will populate with the existing web parts. Browse to
your web part and click add.
Once done your webpart is now added to the site
page. You can edit the default webpart properties by clicking on ‘Modify Shared
WebPart’. For simplicity sake we have changed the title.
You can see the changed title display when view the page normally. So with a few
lines of coding you can see how we have achieved huge customization.
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