Programmatically creating Sites from a Custom Web Template

In SharePoint 2010, you still can use

SPWeb newSite = web.Webs.Add(url, title, desc, LCID, templateName, true, false);

but the templateName is a string like ‘{Template-GUID}#TemplateName’.

I use below power shell script to get all templates

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")

$url = "http://chidev51/sites/subsite"

$site= new-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url )
$loc= [System.Int32]::Parse(1033)
$templates= $site.GetWebTemplates($loc)

foreach ($child in $templates)
{
    write-host $child.Name "  " $child.Title
}
$site.Dispose()

 

Or in the code:

 // Get Web Template
    SPWebTemplateCollection webTemplates = site.RootWeb.GetAvailableWebTemplates(1033);
    SPWebTemplate webTemplate = (from SPWebTemplate t
                                 in webTemplates
                                 where t.Title == "test"
                                 select t).FirstOrDefault();
 webTemplate.Name

 

Here is a example that you can create site collection based on Custom Web Template

http://blog.mastykarz.nl/programmatically-creating-sites-site-collections-custom-web-template/

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