SharePoint features provide a mechanism to add our custom branding elements to the SharePoint farm at four different scopes. Features can be scoped to the farm level, web application level, site collection level, or site (web) level. In addition to adding content, they can run custom code when activated, upgraded, deactivated, and so on in feature event receivers.
In this recipe, we will create a site (web) scoped feature that adds and configures our branding elements on the site.
Follow these steps to create a feature event receiver:
Open the SiteBranding feature that was created when creating for our
MasterPagesandPageLayoutsmodules.Verify that both the modules are listed in the Items in the feature section.
Right-click on SiteBranding.feature in the
Featuresfolder.Select Add Event Receiver as shown in the following screenshot:
In our new
SiteBrandingEventReceiverclass, add the following constant strings that we will use for property...