How to create page layout in SharePoint 2010 using visual studio 2010

We know that we can create page layout using SharePoint Designer but how to create page layout using visual studio 2010.


here am trying to show how to create page layout using visual studio in SharePoint 2010.


Here am taking article page as parent page. For this need to activate two features


a) SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure.(This feature available in  Site collection features which is under site collection administration)
b) SharePoint Server Publishing.(This feature is available in Manage site features which is under Site Actions)


if these two features are not activated then we wont see article page content type in Content Types. see the image.




 activate these two features



 

 1) Open visual studio --> File--> New --> Project.


2) Select SharePoint 2010 in left panel, then select Content Type template in the middle panel and then specify project name.


 


 3) Specify URL location for debugging and deploying this solution as sandbox solution for testing purpose only.

 


 4) Choose Content Type from the drop down here am selecting 'Article Page' and Click on Next.

 

 5) Now it will automatically open Elements.xml file of ContentType1. Now modifying Name of the Content Type and save the file.


 

 6) Now Add Module for actual pagelayout name it as PageLayoutModule

 





By default module has two files one is Elements.xml and sample.txt


7) Now delete sample.txt file from PageLayoutModule






8) Now adding pagelayout page i.e UdayPageLayout.aspx to PageLayoutModule.



 9) Design pagelayout. Here am adding one table in that am adding three webpart zones.


These webpart zones are used to place webpart.

 


 here the code which i was used.



<%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingLayoutPage,Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>


<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePointWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
    Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages"
    Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls"
    Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="PublishingNavigation" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation"
    Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<asp:content contentplaceholderid="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server">
<SharePointWebControls:FieldValue id="PageTitle" FieldName="Title" runat="server" />
</asp:content>
<asp:content contentplaceholderid="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<table cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0>
  <tr>
       <td width="100%">
       <WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" FrameType="TitleBarOnly" ID="Top" Title="loc:Top" />
       </td>
       </tr>
       <tr>
       <td>
       <table width="100%">
       <tr>
       <td width="50%">
       <WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" FrameType="TitleBarOnly" ID="Left" Title="loc:left" />
       </td>
       <td width="50%">
       <WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" FrameType="TitleBarOnly" ID="Right" Title="loc:right" />
       </td>
       </tr>
       </table>
       </td>
       </tr>
       </table>
</asp:content>





10) Now open Elements.xml which is under PageLayoutModule and it looks like this.


 


 11) Now change File tag's URL attribute because inorder to display your custom pagelayout in pagelayouts(which is in ribbon while the page in edit mode).


 


 12) Now am adding properties to page layout. in this we specify Title of the page layout and ContentType i.e pagelayout content type and PublishingAssociatedContentType i.e name of the parent content type and Content Type ID of the Elements.xml which is under ContentType1.





And also Add URL attribute in Module tag.









13) Now open Features-->Feature1, ContentType1 and PageLayoutModule are in Items in the Solution.




Move these two items to Items in the Feature.




15) Now deployee the solution.


After successfully solution deploye. The page layout is available at http://<<server>>:<<port>>/_Catalogs/masterpage (_Catalogs/masterpage) is specified in pagelayoutmodule.
To go that page follow these steps


16) Now open your site --> site actions -->site settings, Click on Master pages and layouts which is uder Galleries.




17) Now you can find newly deployed pagelayout file in the list of files and its status as "Draft".





18) Now checkin the newly added pagelayout file. we can do it in two ways. one is through ribbon and through item menu.





19) While checkin select major version and add your comments and click on "OK".





20) Now the pagelayout status changes to pending it means we need to approve it.


Select the pagelayout and click on "Approve/Reject" from ribbon.





21) Then select "Approved" radio button in Approval Status. Click on "OK".








22) Now the pagelayout file status is approved, so that pagelayout is available.






23) Now Go to Site Actions --> More Options.





24) Select Page in left panel and click on Publishing page.Now click on Create.




25) Now you can see newly added pagelayout as (Name of the content type which is in Elements.xml file under layout1) Title value in Elements.xml which is under PageLayoutModule.i.e (CustomePagelayoutSample) Custome Page Layout.











now click on Create.






26) Now you can aslo see the newly added content page layout in page layouts(which is in ribbon).





Now you can add your webparts in webpart zones. And CheckIn Then Publish the page.






Reference:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Forums/Thread/182458/how-to-create-page-layout-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-st.aspx

Creating Page Layouts in SharePoint 2010

Problem

ManySharePoint portals require having various page layouts/templates available while creating a new pages. This tip explores multiple approaches in providing different options. 

Solution

A "Page Layout" is a page template that controls how the page looks and exactly which elements (such as lists and libraries) should be present on the page. We'll see how to create page layouts in SharePoint 2010 using these approaches below:

• Creating Page Layout via SPD " SharePoint Designer 2010".   
• Creating Page Layouts via default OOTB "Out of the box" SharePoint web browsable layouts.

1. Creating Page Layout via SPD "SharePoint Designer 2010":

- Click on Start > SharePoint > Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010:



- Click on "Sites" > Type your "Site name" > Open:

- Click "Page Layouts" under "Navigation":

- Click on "New Page Layout" under the "New- Page Layouts" tab > Select "Page layout Content type" as the "Content Type Group" and "Article Page" as the "Content Type Name" then fill in the "URL Name" and "Title" as desired for the new page layout:

- Here is the created page layout for "MSSharePoitnTipsSPDLayout.aspx". We can play around and change the HTML as we wish:




-  Let's see where our newly created "MSSharePointTips SPD Layout" page layout is stored. Go to the site > Site Actions "Menu" > Site Settings":

- Click "Master pages and page layouts" under the "Galleries" section:

- We can now see our newly created page layout "MSSharePointTipsSPDLayout.aspx":


-  Now, let's see how we can create a SharePoint page based on the new "MSSharePointTips SPD Layout" page layout. Click on the "Site Actions" menu > "View All Site Content":

- Click on "Pages" under the "Document Libraries" section:

- Click "New Document" under "Documents - Library Tools" ribbon menu items > "Page" :

- Type the page title and description then choose "(Article Page) MSSharePointTips SPD Layout" from "Page Layout" list > Create :

- Here's the created new page inherited from our "MSSharePointTips SPD Layout" custom page layout :

2. Creating Page Layouts via default OOTB "Out of the box" SharePoint web browsable layouts:

- Click "Site Actions" menu > "Site Settings" :

- Click "Master pages and page layouts" under the "Galleries" section:

- Click "New Document" under the "Documents - Library Tools" ribbon menu > the "Page Layout":

- Select "Page layout Content types" as the "Content Type Group" and "Article Page" as the "Content Type Name". Then type a desired "URL Name" , "Title" and "Description"  for the new page layout:




-  We can see our new page layout "MSSharePointTipsBrowsableLayout.aspx":


-  Now, let's see how we can create a SharePoint page based on the newly created "MSSharePointTips SPD Layout" page layout. Click on the "Site Actions" menu > then "View All Site Content":

- Click on "Pages" under the "Document Libraries" section:

- Click "New Document" under the "Documents - Library Tools" ribbon menu > select "Page":

- Type the page title and description then choose "(Article Page) MSSharePointTips Browsable Layout" from the "Page Layout" list > then "Create":

- Here is the created new page inherited from our "MSSharePointTips Browsable Layout" custom page layout:




Reference:

http://www.mssharepointtips.com/tip.asp?id=1125&page=1

How to Create Custom SharePoint 2010 Page Layouts using SharePoint Designer 2010

Becky Bertram has a nice post on how to create custom SharePoint 2010 Page Layouts via Visual Studio but my googling didn’t yield any walkthroughs on how to do this via SharePoint Designer. So let’s take a crack at this…

Scenario:

You’re working with the Enterprise Wiki Site Template and you don’t really like where the “Last modified…” information is located (above the content). You want to move that information to the bottom of the page.
Option 1: Modify the “EnterpriseWiki.aspx” Page Layout directly.
Option 2: Create a new Page Layout based on the original one and then modify that one.

We’ll go ahead and go with Option 2 since we don’t want to modify the out of the box template just in case we need it later on.

How To:

Step 1

Navigate to the top level site of the Site Collection > Site Actions > Site Settings > Master pages (Under the Galleries section). Then switch over to the Documents tab in the Ribbon and then click New > Page Layout.

Step 2

Select the Enterprise Wiki Page Content Type to associate with, give it a URL and Title. Note that there’s also a link on this page to create a new Content Type. You might be interested in doing this if you wanted to say, add more editing fields or metadata properties to the layout. For example if you wanted to add another Managed Metadata column to capture folksonomy aside from the already included “Wiki Categories” Managed Metadata column.

Step 3

SharePoint Designer time! Hover over your newly created Page Layout and “Edit in Microsoft SharePoint Designer.”

Step 4

Now you can choose to build your page manually by dragging your SharePoint Controls onto the page and laying them out as you’d like…

… Or you can copy and paste the OOB Enterprise Wiki Page Layout. I think I’ll do that. :)

Step 5

Alright, so you’ve copied the contents of the EnterpriseWiki.aspx Page Layout and now it’s time for some customizing. I found the control I want to move, so I’ll simply do a copy or cut/paste to the new spot.

Step 6

Check-in, publish, and approve the new Page Layout. Side note: I like to add the Check-In/Check-Out/Discard or Undo-Checkout buttons to all of my Office Applications’ Quick Access Toolbars for convenience.

Step 7

Almost there! Navigate to your publishing site, in this case the Enterprise Wiki Site, then go to Site Actions > Site Settings > Page layouts and site templates (Under Look and Feel). Here you’ll be able to make the new Page Layout available for use within the site.

Step 8

Go back to your site and edit the page that you’d like to change the layout for. On the Page tab of the Ribbon, click on Page Layout and select your custom Page Layout.

Et voila! You just created a custom Page Layout using SharePoint Designer 2010, re-arranged a SharePoint control and managed to plan for the future by not modifying the out of the box template. That was a really simple example but I hope it helped to give you some ideas on how else you can customize Page Layouts within SharePoint 2010!




Reference:

http://blog.henryong.com/2010/06/08/how-to-create-custom-sharepoint-2010-page-layouts-using-sharepoint-designer-2010/