Creating a custom Master page in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010

In this article we will be seeing how to create a custom master page in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010.

Steps Involved:

• Open Visual Studio 2010.
• Go to File => New => Project.
• Select Empty SharePoint Project from the installed template SharePoint 2010.
  
  
   
• Enter the Name.
• Click Ok.
• Enter the local site that you want to use it for debugging.
• Select "Deploy as a sandbox solution".
• Click Finish.
• Right click on the solution and click on "Add a new item".
• Select the Module template from the installed templates.
  
  
   
• Enter the name and click ok.
• Rename the Sample.txt to Sample.master.
• Replace the code with the following code snippet.
  
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
    <Module Name="Module" List="116" Url="_catalogs/masterpage">
      <File Path="Module\Sample.master" Url="Module/Sample.master" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="false" />
    </Module>
  </Elements>
   
• Go to the SharePoint Designer.
• Open some existing site in the SharePoint Designer 2010.
• Go to Navigation => Site Objects =>Master Pages.
• Make a copy of v4.master.
• Do some modifications in the copy of v4.master and copy the code.
• Paste the code in the Sample.master.

Publish the master page:

• Go to Site Actions => Site Settings =>Galleries => Master pages and page layouts => Module =>Sample.master.
• Go to the ECB menu, click on "Check in".
  
  
   
• Go to the ECB menu, click on "Publish a major version".
  
  
   
• Go to the ECB menu, click on "Approve/Reject".
  
  
   
• Select the "Approved" option. Click on Ok.
  
  

Change the master page of the SharePoint site with the custom master page

• Go to the SharePoint Site => Site Actions => Site Settings => Site Collection Administration => Site Collection Features.
• Activate the following feature "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure".
  
  
  
   
• Go to Site Actions => Site Settings =>Site Actions => Manage Site Features.
• Activate the following feature "SharePoint Server Publishing".
  
  
   
• Go to Site Actions => Site Settings => Look and feel => Master Page.
• Select the custom master page as shown in the following.
  
  
  
• Click Ok. 

Reference:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/anavijai/creating-a-custom-master-page-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010/

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