Software Technology Tips

SharePoint allows you to create custom web parts to help you provide highly customized solutions to your clients/users. The properties of these web parts are added by default but to further customize the solution, you can also create custom properties. The following example demonstrates how to add a custom dropdown property to a custom webpart.

// Create a Enum for Languages

public enum LanguageByEnum

{

English = 0,

French,

Spanish

};

// Create Get/Set for the dropdown property

protected LanguageByEnum languageName;

[Personalizable(PersonalizationScope.User),

Category("Select Language"),

WebBrowsable, WebDisplayName("Select language:")]