Add List View WebPart to SharePoint page

The way we add custom WebPart to a SharePoint page is by adding <AllUsersWebPart> element with WebPart’s exported xml populated inside <File> element. I will NOT discuss it further in here.

As you would have known, List View WebPart could NOT be exported in SharePoint page. Therefore, the question is How could we add the List View WebPart into SharePoint page?

I did it in managed code when Feature Activated feature receiver.

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

   try

   {

      SPWeb web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb;

 

      // Add webparts into MyView.aspx page

      SPFile myviewFile = web.GetFile("Pages/myview.aspx");

      AddListViewWebPart(myviewFile, web.Lists["ListName"], "Top", 1, web.Lists["ListName"].Views["ViewName"].ID);

   }

   catch (Exception ex)

   {

      // Your Error handling here ...

   }

}

 

private void AddListViewWebPart(SPFile file, SPList list, string webPartZone, int webPartOrder, Guid viewId)

{

   SPLimitedWebPartManager limitedWebPartManager = file.GetLimitedWebPartManager(System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope.Shared);

   XsltListViewWebPart wp = null;

   list.ParentWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

 

   try

   {

       // create an instance of the ListViewWebPart

       wp = new XsltListViewWebPart();

 

       // convert the list GUID to a string, must include braces (ToString("B")) and be in uppers (ToUpper())

       wp.ListName = list.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();

 

       // optionally set the title of the web part

       wp.Title = list.Title;

       wp.ViewGuid = viewId.ToString("B").ToUpper();

       wp.ChromeType = System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PartChromeType.None;

 

       // add the web part to the limited web part manager.

       limitedWebPartManager.AddWebPart(wp, webPartZone, webPartOrder);

 

       // you need to update the list because a view was just added to it

       list.Update();

   }

   finally

   {

       // do some fun cleanup of disposable items.

       if (limitedWebPartManager != null)

       {

           if (limitedWebPartManager.Web != null)

           {

              limitedWebPartManager.Web.Dispose();

           }

 

           limitedWebPartManager.Dispose();

       }

 

       if (wp != null)

       {

           wp.Dispose();

       }

       list.ParentWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

   }

}