Introduction
Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.
Question: What is Group?
In simple terms "It is a collection of various users gathered to perform a specific task".
Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.
Step 2: Open up Visual Studio 2012 and try to "SharePoint Visual Web Part" project, as in:
Step 3: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" as in the following and click the "Finish" button.
Step 4: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx looks like this:
<%@ Assembly Name="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$" %>
<%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.Web.CommandUI, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="asp" Namespace="System.Web.UI" Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages"
Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="VisualWebPart1.ascx.cs"
Inherits="CreateGroupApp.VisualWebPart1.VisualWebPart1" %>
<center>
<div>
<table style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="Create Group - SharePoint 2010 via Visual Studio 2012"
font-bold="true" forecolor="Maroon" font-size="Large"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label2" runat="server" text="Please Enter Group Name:"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label3" runat="server" text="Please Enter Group Description:"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:textbox id="TextBox2" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:button id="Button1" runat="server" text="Create Group " forecolor="Orange" font-bold="true"
backcolor="Black" onclick="Button1_Click" width="176px" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:label id="Label4" runat="server" font-bold="true"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</center>
Step 5: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx.cs looks like this: