When working with SharePoint pages and web parts on them, you may often find a need to modify web part properties for existing or new web parts throughout the site. For example, a new web part may be required to be deployed to many pages on the site and needs to be configured with the required parameters. In another scenario, your developers may have updated the functionality of the web part and now it consumes a new set of properties or expects different values for its properties. If the modified web part is used on multiple pages within your site, it may crash or not function properly until valid configuration values are provisioned on each page which uses it.
In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can access the web part properties and make changes to the most common web part properties affecting the web part look and feel as well as some of the configuration parameters related to web part behavior.
Using this approach, you can make...