How can I add a webpart to a page automatically when page is created?

Question

I have a number of visual webparts and I'm looking to add these automatically to a page whenever that page gets created.

Is it best to add this to the page layout in a webpartzone?

I have tried creating a itemadded event receiver to the list but I can't seem to reference my custom webparts. I can view the webparts fine in the webpart gallery under the custom section but I can't work out how to reference these along with the WebPartManager methods.

ListViewWebPart lvp = new ListViewWebPart() works...

This doesn't compile - no reference to my custom webpart is available seemingly MyCustomWebPart wp = new MyCustomWebPart();

Any ideas? Ideally I'd like to do this in the receiver so I can ad

Answer 1

Yes - via a stapler feature that assigns the Web Part and inserts it into the page. Look up stapler to understand how that works (it's like an event handler on features). Next see these two CodePlex tools - all the code you need to insert a web part in a page is demonstrated there:

User rating web part: http://userratingwebpart.codeplex.com/ and

Add User Rating to Blog Site: http://addratingstoblogsite.codeplex.com/