Programmatically set homepage in Sharepoint Foundation

Question

I need to set the homepage to default.aspx in my FeatureActivated event receiver. I tried

rootWeb.RootFolder.WelcomePage = "default.aspx";
rootWeb.RootFolder.Update();

but that doesn't seem to be working...this HAS to work in Sharepoint Foundation....i have seen some methods that are not compatible with foundation?

TIA

Answer 1

Please check this link to see how to set your home page.

If this does not work, please try to debug and check if your FeatureActivated event gets fired.

Hope this helps

Cheers!

My bad that I did not see that. Anyways can you please try below,

Please use this in feature activating,

using (SPWeb web = (properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb)) {

            if (web != null)
            {
                SPFolder rootFolder = SPContext.Current.Web.RootFolder;
                rootFolder.WelcomePage = "YOURCUSTOMURLGOESHERE";
                rootFolder.Update();
            }
        }

If you would like to resort to your default page during feature deactivation,

rootFolder.WelcomePage = "default.aspx";