Introduction
Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.
Question: What is reset to site definition?
In simple terms "It enables removal of all the customizations from a page or site".
Step 1: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.
Step 2: Open up Visual Studio 2012 and try to create a "SharePoint Visual Web Part" project, as in:
Step 3: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" as in the following and click the "Finish" button.
Step 4: 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="VisualWebPart1.ascx.cs"
Inherits="ResetSiteDefApp.VisualWebPart1.VisualWebPart1" %>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="Reset Site Defination in SharePoint 2010 using VS 2012"
font-bold="true" font-size="Large" font-names="Verdana" forecolor="Maroon"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:button id="Button1" runat="server" text="Reset Site Defination" font-names="Verdana"
width="203px" backcolor="Orange" font-bold="True" onclick="Button1_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Step 5: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx.cs looks like this:
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;namespace ResetSiteDefApp.VisualWebPart1
{
[ToolboxItemAttribute(false)]
public partial class VisualWebPart1 : WebPart
{
// Uncomment the following SecurityPermission attribute only when doing Performance Profiling using
// the Instrumentation method, and then remove the SecurityPermission attribute when the code is ready
// for production. Because the SecurityPermission attribute bypasses the security check for callers of
// your constructor, it's not recommended for production purposes.
// [System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission(System.Security.Permissions.SecurityAction.Assert, UnmanagedCode = true)]
public VisualWebPart1()
{
}
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnInit(e);
InitializeControl();
}
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://win-5c3g1lanj3k:29782/");
foreach (SPWeb web in site.AllWebs)
{
web.RevertAllDocumentContentStreams();
}
}
}
}
Step 6: Deploy the solution file and add the new webpart to a SharePoint site.
Step 7: The output of the application looks like this:
Step 8: The reset to site definition output application looks like this:
I hope this article is useful for you.