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" %>

<div>

<tr>

<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>

<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>

<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.