Since you are developing a client WPF application you could consider the following client-side APIs:
Since you mentioned in question that you've already installed SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK, below is demonstrated how utilize CSOM in WPF application.
How to manage a Publishing pages using SharePoint 2013 CSOM API
SharePoint 2013 introduced support for publishing pages in SharePoint 2013 CSOM, the following class demonstrates how to create and read publishing pages:
class PagesManager
{
public static ListItemCollection LoadPages(ClientContext ctx)
{
var pagesList = ctx.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("Pages");
var pageItems = pagesList.GetItems(CamlQuery.CreateAllItemsQuery());
ctx.Load(pageItems);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
return pageItems;
}
public static void CreatePublishingPage(ClientContext ctx, string pageName,string pageLayoutName)
{
var pubWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(ctx, ctx.Web);
var pageInfo = new PublishingPageInformation();
pageInfo.Name = pageName;
pageInfo.PageLayoutListItem = GetPageLayout(ctx,pageLayoutName);
var publishingPage = pubWeb.AddPublishingPage(pageInfo);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
public static ListItem GetPageLayout(ClientContext ctx,string name)
{
var list = ctx.Site.GetCatalog((int)ListTemplateType.MasterPageCatalog);
var qry = new CamlQuery();
qry.ViewXml = string.Format("<View><Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' /><Value Type='Text'>{0}</Value></Eq></Where></Query></View>", name);
var result = list.GetItems(qry);
ctx.Load(result);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
var item = result.FirstOrDefault();
return item;
}
}
WPF app
Prerequisites: make sure all the required SharePoint CSOM assemblies are referenced in WPF project as demonstrates on picture below
XAML
<Window x:Class="SPManager.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Pages" Height="350" Width="525" Name="PagesWindow">
<StackPanel>
<DataGrid Name="gridPages" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" AutoGenerateColumns="False" >
<DataGrid.Columns>
<DataGridHyperlinkColumn Header="Page" Binding="{Binding Path=PageLink}" ContentBinding="{Binding Path=PageName}"/>
<DataGridTextColumn Header="Creation Date" Binding="{Binding CreationDate}"/>
</DataGrid.Columns>
</DataGrid>
<Button Content="Create Page" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Click="PageCreate_Click"/>
</StackPanel>
</Window>
Load pages
private void LoadPages()
{
using (var ctx = GetClientContext())
{
var items = PagesManager.LoadPages(ctx).Select(i => new
{
CreationDate = (DateTime)i["Created"],
PageName = i["FileLeafRef"],
PageLink = i["FileRef"].ToString()
});
gridPages.ItemsSource = items;
}
}
Create a publishing page
private void PageCreate_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
using (var ctx = GetClientContext())
{
PagesManager.CreatePublishingPage(ctx, "Hello from WPF.aspx", "BlankWebPartPage.aspx");
}
}
where
private static ClientContext GetClientContext()
{
var webUri = new Uri(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["WebUrl"]);
//var userName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UserName"];
//var password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Password"];
return new ClientContext(webUri);
}
Result
Update
How to create a publishing page and specify page properties:
public static void CreatePublishingPage(ClientContext ctx, string pageName,string pageLayoutName,IDictionary<string,object> properties)
{
var pubWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(ctx, ctx.Web);
var pageInfo = new PublishingPageInformation();
pageInfo.Name = pageName;
pageInfo.PageLayoutListItem = GetPageLayout(ctx,pageLayoutName);
var publishingPage = pubWeb.AddPublishingPage(pageInfo);
var pageItem = publishingPage.ListItem;
foreach (var p in properties)
{
pageItem[p.Key] = p.Value;
}
pageItem.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
}
Usage
var pageItemProperties = new Dictionary<string, object>();
pageItemProperties["PublishingPageContent"] = "<h1>Hello from WPF!</h1>";
pageItemProperties["Title"] = "Hello from WPF!";
PagesManager.CreatePublishingPage(ctx, "Hello from WPF.aspx", "BlankWebPartPage.aspx", pageItemProperties);
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