Picture Library in SharePoint 2010 Programmatically Using VS 2010

Introduction

 

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.

Question: What is a Picture library?

 

In simple terms "It is a library to share, collaborate and work together with a group of pictures".

 

Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.

 

Step 2: Open up Visual Studio 2010 and create an "Empty SharePoint project":

 

 

Step 3: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" as in the following and click the "Finish" button. Then an empty project is created.

 

 

Step 4: Add a new visual webpart for that project.

 

 

Step 5: 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="PictureLibWPUserControl.ascx.cs"

    Inherits="PictureLibraryProgramatically.PictureLibWP.PictureLibWPUserControl" %>

<center>

    <div>

        <table style="font-family: Verdana">

            <tr>

                <td colspan="2">

                    <asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="Picture Library - SharePoint 2010 via Visual Studio"

                        font-bold="true" forecolor="Maroon" font-size="Large"></asp:label>

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td>

                    <asp:label id="Label2" runat="server" text="Please Enter List 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 List 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="Picture Library Creation" forecolor="Orange"

                        font-bold="true" backcolor="Black" onclick="Button1_Click" width="217px" />

                </td>

            </tr>

            <tr>

                <td colspan="2">

                    <asp:label id="Label4" runat="server" font-bold="true"></asp:label>

                </td>

            </tr>

        </table>

    </div>

</center>

Step 6: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx.cs looks like this:

 

using System;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace PictureLibraryProgramatically.PictureLibWP

{

    public partial class PictureLibWPUserControl : UserControl

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            TextBox1.Focus();

        }

        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox2.Text))

            {

                Label4.Text = "Please Enter Some Values";

                Label4.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

            }

            else

            {

                SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;

                web.Lists.Add(TextBox1.Text, TextBox2.Text, SPListTemplateType.PictureLibrary);

                web.QuickLaunchEnabled = true;

                web.Update();

                Label4.Text = TextBox1.Text + " - Picture Library Created";

                Label4.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;

            }

        }

    }

}

 

Step 7: Deploy the solution file and add the created webpart to SharePoint site.

 

Step 8: The output of the application looks like this:

 

 

 

Step 9: Picture library creating output of the application looks like this:

 

 

 Step 10: Picture library created output of the application looks like this:

 

 

 I hope this article is useful for you.