Create A Publishing Page In SharePoint 2013 Using CSOM

This blog post explains how to create/add publishing pages to a Publishing Site in SharePoint 2013, using managed Client Object Model (CSOM) .

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing DLL can achieve this.

The Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing namespace will be used in the below sample.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using System.Security;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Publishing;

namespace CreatepublishingPage
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            AddPublishingPage();
        }
public void AddPublishingPage()
                {
                ClientContext context;
                string pageName="CustomPage";
                Web webSite = context.Web;
                context.Load(webSite);
                PublishingWeb web = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(context, webSite);
                context.Load(web);

                if (web != null)
                {
                List pages = context.Site.RootWeb.Lists.GetByTitle(“Pages”);
                ListItemCollection defaultPages = pages.GetItems(CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery());
                context.Load(defaultPages , items => items.Include(item => item.DisplayName).Where(obj => obj.DisplayName == pageName));
                context.ExecuteQuery();
                if (defaultPages  != null && defaultPages .Count > 0)
                {
                }
                else
                {

                List publishingLayouts = context.Site.RootWeb.Lists.GetByTitle(“Master Page Gallery”);
                ListItemCollection allItems = publishingLayouts.GetItems(CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery());
                context.Load(allItems, items => items.Include(item => item.DisplayName).Where(obj => obj.DisplayName ==“BlankWebPartPage”));
                context.ExecuteQuery();
                ListItem layout = allItems.Where(x => x.DisplayName == “BlankWebPartPage”).FirstOrDefault();
                context.Load(layout);
                PublishingPageInformation publishingPageInfo = newPublishingPageInformation();
                publishingPageInfo.Name = pageName;
                publishingPageInfo.PageLayoutListItem = layout;
                PublishingPage publishingPage = web.AddPublishingPage(publishingPageInfo);
                publishingPage.ListItem.File.CheckIn(string.Empty, CheckinType.MajorCheckIn);
                publishingPage.ListItem.File.Publish(string.Empty);
                publishingPage.ListItem.File.Approve(string.Empty);
                context.Load(publishingPage);
                context.Load(publishingPage.ListItem.File, obj => obj.ServerRelativeUrl);
                context.ExecuteQuery();
                }
                }
                }



    }

}

Conclusion

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