Site Provisioning : Webpart and Webpages

Different ways to provisioning webpart
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There are many ways to add a webpart on a page like Web part can be provisioned using feature receiver(Using SP object model), webpart can be provisioned using different xml markups in ONET.xml. Here i want to describe few of the xml markup techniques to do the same.

1. Using AllUserView webpart
- Sample is as below


<AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="3>
          <![CDATA[
        <WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
          <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
          <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart</TypeName>
          <Title>My Test Documents</Title>
          <Description>TestDocuments</Description>
          <FrameType>Standard</FrameType>
          <IsVisible>true</IsVisible>
        </WebPart>
      ]]>
        </AllUsersWebPart>


2. By creating LVWP using VIew element.
- Few of the approaches to do the same.
- Samples are as below A. and B.

A.
<View List="Lists/TestDocuments" BaseViewID="1" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="3" />

B. With properties

 <View List="Lists/TeamDocuments" BaseViewID="1" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="5">
        <![CDATA[
             <webParts>
             <webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v3">
             <metaData>
             <type name="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.XsltListViewWebPart,Microsoft.SharePoint,Version=14.0.0.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
             <importErrorMessage>Cannot import this Web Part.</importErrorMessage>
             </metaData>
             <data>
             <properties>
             <property name="AllowConnect" type="bool">False</property>
             <property name="ChromeType" type="chrometype">TitleAndBorder</property>
             </properties>
             </data>
             </webPart>
             </webParts>
 ]]>
      </View>

C.
<View List="Lists/TestDocuments" BaseViewID="1" DisplayName="TestDocuments" Name="TestDocuments" RecurrenceRowset="TRUE" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="3">
          <![CDATA[
             <WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
                  <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
                  <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart</TypeName>
                  <Title>Test Documents</Title>
               
             </WebPart>
      ]]>
   
  </View>

3. By using Binary Serialized Webpart -
Here is the steps for How to provision Binary Serialized Webpart

- Create a webpart page and Save the page into page/document library. Add webparts to the page.
- Save site as a template (NOTE - Do NOT include content while saving the site as template.)
- Download and Rename WSP file to CAB file and extract it
- Go to modules folder and fetch the module xml.
- Use the same module xml to create element xml while create module in Visual studio solution.


Thanks to - http://blogs.edwardwilde.com/tag/onet-xml/