2Oct/072
Change the welcome page of your SharePoint 2007 site programmatically
Today I was trying to figure out how to change the welcome page of a SharePoint 2007 site programmatically. I couldn't really find useful links on Google, so I figured I'd go and play around a bit with the object model.
Apparently the PublishingWeb object has a property called DefaultPage, which takes an SPFile object as a value. I ended up with the following code to change the welcome page:
using(SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite("http://yourserver")) { SPWeb targetWeb = siteCollection.AllWebs["YourWebName"]; SPFile newWelcomePage = null; // Change the code here to set the SPFile object to your new welcome page if(PublishingWeb.IsPublishingWeb(targetWeb)) { PublishingWeb publishingWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(targetWeb); publishingWeb.DefaultPage = newWelcomePage; // this sets the new welcome page publishingWeb.Update(); } }
That should do the trick 
. I hope this post is useful for anyone who's also trying to achieve the same thing!