Change Title 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 Change title?

 

In simple terms "It provides flexibility for changing the site title in a programmatic fashion".

 

Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.

 

Step 2: Open Visual Studio 2010 and create an "Empty SharePoint project":

 

 

 

Step 3: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" and click the "Finish" button. Now an empty project will be created; see:

 

 

 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="ChangeTitleWPUserControl.ascx.cs"

    Inherits="ChangeTitleApp.ChangeTitleWP.ChangeTitleWPUserControl" %>

<div style="text-align: center;">

    <table style="font-family: Verdana">

        <tr>

            <td colspan="2">

                <asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="Change Site Title - 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 SiteName:"></asp:label>

            </td>

            <td>

                <asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:textbox>

            </td>

        </tr>

        <td colspan="2">

            <asp:button id="Button1" runat="server" text="Click to Rename Site" forecolor="Orange"

                font-bold="true" backcolor="Black" onclick="Button1_Click" width="177px" />

        </td>

        </tr><tr>

            <td colspan="2">

                <asp:label id="Label4" runat="server" font-bold="true"></asp:label>

            </td>

        </tr>

    </table>

</div>

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;

using System.Globalization;

namespace ChangeTitleApp.ChangeTitleWP

{

    public partial class ChangeTitleWPUserControl : UserControl

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            TextBox1.Focus();

        }

        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text))

            {

                Label4.Text = "Please Enter Some Values";

                Label4.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

            }

            else

            {

                SPSite site = new SPSite("http://win-5d57sl2rvt1:6901/");

                SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

                SPUserResource resource = web.TitleResource;

                foreach (CultureInfo culture in web.SupportedUICultures)

                {

                    resource.SetValueForUICulture(culture, TextBox1.Text);

                }

                web.Update();

                Label4.Text = "Site is Renamed Successfully to " + TextBox1.Text;

                Label4.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;

                TextBox1.Text = string.Empty;

            }

        }

    }

}

 

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: The site title before output of the application looks like this:

 

 

 

Step10: The site title created output of the application looks like this:

 

Step 11: The site title after output of the application looks like this:

 

 

 

I hope this article is useful for you.