SharePoint Feature Activation

Question

Is there a way that I can copy a page from Pages library into another library (Site Pages) automatically once my feature is activated? I have written a custom event receiver which will set the master page for newly created personal sites and after the creation of the site I want to replace the 'default.aspx' page with my custom 'default.aspx

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you use SharePoint Publishing feature you can change your welcom page through UI (Site Settings -> Look and feel -> welcom page) or you can use PublishingWeb.DefaultPage method in your code.

Answer 2

For replacing default.aspx with your custom file, in feature activation receiver, place the following code:

SPFile newDefaultPage = // get your custom default page from somewhere
SPFile defaultPage = web.RootFolder.Files["default.aspx"];

// saving backup
defaultPage.CopyTo("default-old.aspx", true);

// copying our custom page over the default
newDefaultPage.CopyTo("default.aspx", true);

Similarly, in the page deactivation handler, you can restore the page from the default-old.aspx file.

Update: if you want to activate this feature on site collection scope, and then replace the default.aspx files on all the sites in site collection except root site, you can achieve this using following code:

var site = (SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent;
foreach (SPWeb web in site.AllWebs)
{
    if (web.IsRootWeb)
        continue;

    try
    {
        ReplaceDefaultAspx(web);
    }
    finally
    {
        web.Dispose();
    }
}

Where ReplaceDefaultAspx method contains the first piece of code.