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Hey Justin, That's a great question :) I have...

2012-01-23T12:48:57.079Z

Hey Justin,

That's a great question :) I haven't tried the combo of AllUsersWebPart and WebPartAdderExtension, but actually I wouldn't expect any issues. Consider that AllUsersWebPart takes a string ID in the declarative XML - both the .webpart file and WebPartAdderExtension require you to specify this.

Also, it's entirely possible to provision a ListViewWebPart onto a page using AllUsersWebPart, and those appear in the gallery courtesy of some Microsoft code which effectively uses the same approach (i.e. it's a WebPartGallerySource).

So I can't imagine there'd be any issues, but I'd love to hear from anyone who finds this isn't the case.

Cheers,

C.

Hey Chris, How does this affect provisioning webp...

2012-01-23T07:03:58.393Z

Hey Chris,

How does this affect provisioning webparts in pages? I take it the AllUsersWebPart method is probably a no-no?

Thanks,

Justin

Love this brother. Well played.

2012-01-19T20:03:04.794Z

Love this brother. Well played.

Yup, this is how they do it in Meeting Workspaces ...

2012-01-19T14:36:44.232Z

Yup, this is how they do it in Meeting Workspaces using the Microsoft.SharePoint.Meetings.MeetingsListGallerySource (internal/sealed).

Great write up around both the WHY and HOW for this!