Set WebPart Icon in Site Definition.

It’s a very common scenario to create a site definition with pages, features, lists, web parts…etc

I have tried to change the web part icon as per the information in MSDN page, by using the “ImageUrl” property, but this didn’t work.

<View List="$Resources:core,lists_Folder;/Discussions" ImageUrl=”/_layouts/????????.png”  BaseViewID="0" WebPartZoneID="Left" Name="$Resources:Strings,List_Instance_Title_Discussions_Forum;" WebPartOrder="1" ShowHeaderUI="True"/>

So I decided to catch the webpart and set the ImageUrl programmatically. So the only way to do this is to implement this in the FeatureActivated event in the FeatureReceiver class.

   1: public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

   2: {

   3:     base.FeatureActivated(properties);

   4:     SetWebPartIcon(properties)

   5: }

   6:  

   7: private static void SetWebPartIcon(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

   8: {

   9:     try

  10:     {

  11:         SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(() =>

  12:         {

  13:             SPWeb site = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb;

  14:             SPLimitedWebPartManager webPartManager = 

  15:                 site.GetLimitedWebPartManager(site.ServerRelativeUrl + "/default.aspx", PersonalizationScope.Shared);

  16:             SPLimitedWebPartCollection webParts = webPartManager.WebParts;

  17:             if (webParts != null && webParts.Count > 0)

  18:             {

  19:                 foreach (System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart webPart in webParts)

  20:                 {

  21:                     if (string.Compare(webPart.Title, "Web Part Name", false) == 0)

  22:                     {

  23:                         // Set the Image URL

  24:                         webPart.TitleIconImageUrl = "*****";

  25:                         webPartManager.SaveChanges(webPart);

  26:                     }

  27:                 }

  28:             }

  29:         });

  30:     }

  31:     catch (Exception ex)

  32:     {

  33:         // Catch the Exception

  34:     }

  35: }