SharePoint 2013 Extension Tilesviewwebpart

SharePoint 2013 adds a new, more useful Web Part, which is tilesviewwebpart.

After you create a new team site, you can see it on the home page:

It can also propose a new promoted Link list as a data source

But what if you want to use a custom data source?

The answer is to inherit the Tilesviewwebpart class and override the Gettiles method:

Using system;using system.componentmodel;using system.web;using system.web.ui;using system.web.ui.webcontrols;using System.web.ui.webcontrols.webparts;using microsoft.sharepoint;using microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols;using Microsoft.sharepoint.webpartpages;using microsoft.sharepoint.utilities;using System.Collections.Generic;    namespace tilesview.mytileswebpart{[ToolboxItemAttribute (false)] public class Mytileswebpart:tilesviewwebpart        {Private ReadOnly string layoutspath = "/" + Sputility.contextlayoutsfolder + "/tilesview/";        Private readonly string tilestitle = "My first Custom Tileswebpart"; Public Mytileswebpart () {Baseviewid = ((int) tilesbaseviewid.tileview).        ToString (); } protected override tiledata[] Gettiles () {list<tiledata> mytiles = new list<tiledata&            gt; (); Mytiles.add (new Tiledata {Title = "Google Search", Description = "Google SearCH is the search service provided by Google, Launchbehavior = Tilelaunchbehavior.dialog, Li Nklocation = "http://www.google.com", ID = ten, backgroundimagelocation = Layoutspath + "Goog            Le.jpg ", TileOrder = 0});  Mytiles.add (new Tiledata {Title = "Baidu search", Description = "Baidu Search is The best Chinese Search ", Launchbehavior = tilelaunchbehavior.dialog, linklocation =" http:                Www.baidu.com ", ID = $, backgroundimagelocation = Layoutspath +" Baidu.jpg ",            TileOrder = 1});  Mytiles.add (new Tiledata {Title = "bing search", Description = "Bing search is a Search service which provided by Microsoft ", Launchbehavior = Tilelaunchbehavior.dialog, Li    Nklocation = "Http://www.bing.com",            ID = $, backgroundimagelocation = Layoutspath + "Bing.jpg", TileOrder = 2,            });        return Mytiles.toarray ();        } protected override string Viewtitle {get {return tilestitle;} }          }}

The results of the extension are as follows: