how to deploy a custom list form when the list is created in the feature EventReceiver?

Question

how to deploy a custom list form using Visual Studio 2010, when the list is created in the feature EventReceiver?

Answer 1

When I do this I go in and manually set the urls and/or modify the existing page and update it with my custom web part that I wrote via the object model inside a feature receiver. You can write a new one or use the existing one.

    //In this case I have a custom web part that I want to use on both the new and edit form
    private void SetNewAndEditForm(Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList list, SPWeb web)
    {
        SPContentType ct = list.ContentTypes[contentTypeName];

        //I'll be using the edit form for both item creation and updating so I build the edit form url (This specific set of strings is for a documentLibrary
        string fileUrl = web.Url + "/" + documentLibraryName + "/Forms/EditForm.aspx";
        SPFile page = web.GetFile(fileUrl);

        //This is how the form URLs get set
        ct.NewFormUrl = page.ServerRelativeUrl;
        ct.EditFormUrl = page.ServerRelativeUrl;
        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
        ct.Update();
        list.Update();

        using (SPLimitedWebPartManager wpartman = page.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.Shared))
        {
            //Loop through and hide the existing web parts 
            //You could also remove them but this causes some weirdness in SharePoint designer so only hide them if you need to work with attachments is my recommendation
            for (int i =  wpartman.WebParts.Count - 1; i >=0; i--)
            {                    
                System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart wp = wpartman.WebParts[i];
                wp.Hidden = true;
                wpartman.SaveChanges(wp);
            }

            //Add your web part to the page and set its properties
            MyWebPart webpart = new MyWebPart();
            webpart.ChromeState = PartChromeState.Normal;
            webpart.ChromeType = PartChromeType.None;
            wpartman.AddWebPart(webpart, "Main", 1);

            page.Update();
        }

        web.Update();
        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
    }