SPSiteCollection.Add Method (String, String, String, UInt32, String, String, String, String)

Creates an SPSite object in the collection based on the specified URL, title, description, locale identifier (LCID), and site definition or site template, as well as on the user name, user display name, and e-mail address of the owner of the site collection.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)
Available in Sandboxed Solutions: No

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function Add ( _
    siteUrl As String, _
    title As String, _
    description As String, _
    nLCID As UInteger, _
    webTemplate As String, _
    ownerLogin As String, _
    ownerName As String, _
    ownerEmail As String _
) As SPSite
'Usage
Dim instance As SPSiteCollection
Dim siteUrl As String
Dim title As String
Dim description As String
Dim nLCID As UInteger
Dim webTemplate As String
Dim ownerLogin As String
Dim ownerName As String
Dim ownerEmail As String
Dim returnValue As SPSite

returnValue = instance.Add(siteUrl, title, _
    description, nLCID, webTemplate, _
    ownerLogin, ownerName, ownerEmail)

public SPSite Add(
    string siteUrl,
    string title,
    string description,
    uint nLCID,
    string webTemplate,
    string ownerLogin,
    string ownerName,
    string ownerEmail
)

Parameters

• siteUrl
  Type: System.String

  A string that contains the URL for the site object, for example, Site_Name or sites/Site_Name. It may either be server-relative or absolute for typical sites.

• title
  Type: System.String

  A String that contains the title for the site object.

• description
  Type: System.String

  A String that contains the description for the site object.

• nLCID
  Type: System.UInt32

  An unsigned 32-bit integer that specifies the LCID for the site object.

• webTemplate
  Type: System.String

  A String that specifies the site definition or site template for the site object. Specify a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) to create a site without applying a template to it. For a list of default site definitions, see Remarks.

• ownerLogin
  Type: System.String

  A String that contains the user name of the owner of the site object (for example, Domain\User). In Active Directory Domain Services account creation mode, the ownerLogin parameter must contain a value even if the value does not correspond to an actual user name.

• ownerName
  Type: System.String

  A String that contains the display name of the owner of the site object.

• ownerEmail
  Type: System.String

  A String that contains the e-mail address of the owner of the site object.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite
An SPSite object that represents the new site collection.

Remarks

The following table shows the values for the default site definitions that are included in an installation of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Value	Site Definition
STS#0	Team Site
STS#1	Blank Site
STS#2	Document Workspace
MPS#0	Basic Meeting Workspace
MPS#1	Blank Meeting Workspace
MPS#2	Decision Meeting Workspace
MPS#3	Social Meeting Workspace
MPS#4	Multipage Meeting Workspace
BLOG#0	Blog
SGS#0	Basic Group Work Site
SGS#1	Blank Group Work Site
WIKI#0	Wiki

Note that WIKI provides a site definition configuration for legacy wiki sites that were originally created in an earlier version of SharePoint Foundation. Because standard site pages on SGS sites are wiki-enabled pages, you do not need to create sites that are specifically for wikis.

By default, a global site template (GLOBAL#0) is added to all site definitions. You cannot explicitly create a site based on a global site template.

Examples

The following code example creates a site collection within a specified Web application.

Dim webApp As SPWebApplication = New SPSite("http://MySiteCollection").WebApplication
Dim siteCollections As SPSiteCollection = webApp.Sites

Dim newSiteCollection As SPSite = siteCollections.Add("sites/Site_Name", "Site_Title", "Site_Description", 1033, "STS#0", "DOMAIN\User", "Owner_User_Name", "Owner_Email")

SPWebApplication webApp = new SPSite("http://MySiteCollection").WebApplication;
SPSiteCollection siteCollections = webApp.Sites;

SPSite newSiteCollection = siteCollections.Add("sites/Site_Name", 
    "Site_Title", "Site_Description", 1033, "STS#0", 
    "DOMAIN\\User", "Owner_User_Name", "Owner_Email");

See Also

Reference

SPSiteCollection Class

SPSiteCollection Members

Add Overload

Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration Namespace