In addition to the branding text, out-of-the-box SharePoint master pages include a delegate control to display a series of links in the suite bar. These links include Newsfeed, SkyDrive, and Sites by default. Since SharePoint provides no configuration options to add or modify the links in the suite bar, we will use a delegate control in this recipe and in the next recipe to customize the links displayed.
We should have already created our Visual Studio project in the Creating a Visual Studio solution for custom delegate controls recipe of this chapter before starting this recipe.
Follow these steps to customize the suite bar links with a delegate control:
Open the project created in the Creating a Visual Studio solution for custom delegate controls recipe of this chapter in Visual Studio.
Right-click on the
Controls
folder we created previously.Navigate to Add | Class.
Provide a name for the...