How to create Site Collections from a Custom Web Template

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How to create Site Collections from a Custom Web Template Programming

Open Visual Studio 2010.

Go to File => New => Project.

Select Empty SharePoint Project template from the installed templates.

Enter the Name “CreateSiteCollectionFromTemplate” and click Ok.

Right click on the solution and click on Add a new item.

Select the VisualWebPart template from the installed template.

Enter the Name as CreateSiteCollectionFromTemplate and click Ok.

Now the entire solution looks like following.

Open CreateSiteCollectionFromTemplateUserControl.ascx then drag and drop button follows as:

Double click to button and add reference:

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

Code in button Button1_Click

using System;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration;

using Microsoft.SharePoint;

using System.IO;

using System.Linq;

namespace CreateSiteCollectionFromTemplate.CreateSiteCollectionFromTemplate

{

    public partial class CreateSiteCollectionFromTemplateUserControl : UserControl

    {

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

        }

        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            SPWebApplication spWebApplication = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new Uri("http://devsharepoint/"));

            using (SPSite spSite = spWebApplication.Sites.Add("/sites/HomeTemplate", "SharePoint", null, 1033, null, "administrator", "Administrator", "quochung211187@gmail.com"))

            {

                SPWeb rootWeb = spSite.RootWeb;

                // Get Solutions Gallery

                SPDocumentLibrary spDocumentLibrary = (SPDocumentLibrary)spSite.GetCatalog(SPListTemplateType.SolutionCatalog);

                // Upload Solution File with the Web Template (You must copy HomeTemplate.wsp to C:\Windows)

                SPFile solutionFile = spDocumentLibrary.RootFolder.Files.Add("HomeTemplate.wsp", File.ReadAllBytes(@"..\..\HomeTemplate.wsp"));

                // Activate Solution

                SPUserSolution spUserSolution = spSite.Solutions.Add(solutionFile.Item.ID);

                // Activate Features

                Guid solutionId = spUserSolution.SolutionId;

                // Activate Site Collection Features

                SPFeatureDefinitionCollection spFeatureDefinitionCollection = spSite.FeatureDefinitions;

                var features = from SPFeatureDefinition spFeatureDefinition

                               in spFeatureDefinitionCollection

                               where spFeatureDefinition.SolutionId.Equals(solutionId) && spFeatureDefinition.Scope == SPFeatureScope.Site

                               select spFeatureDefinition;

                foreach (SPFeatureDefinition feature in features)

                {

                    spSite.Features.Add(feature.Id, false, SPFeatureDefinitionScope.Site);

                }

                // Get Web Template

                SPWebTemplateCollection spWebTemplateCollection = spSite.RootWeb.GetAvailableWebTemplates(1033);

                SPWebTemplate webTemplate = (from SPWebTemplate spWebTemplate

                                             in spWebTemplateCollection

                                             where spWebTemplate.Title == "HomeTemplate"

                                             select spWebTemplate).FirstOrDefault();

                if (webTemplate != null)

                {

                    spSite.RootWeb.ApplyWebTemplate(webTemplate.Name);

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

Deploy Project

Go to central Admin create new Site collection then save that site collection to template and set name is “HomeTemplate.wsp”, download that template and save at C:\Windows Folder

Go to the site where you have deployed the solution. Add webpart

Click button, automatically site collection is created follows as:

Check in Central Admin, see site collection is created by go to Central Admin => Application Management => View all site collections