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SPSiteCollection.Add method (String, String, String)

SharePoint 2013

Creates an SPSite object based on the specified URL and on the user name and e-mail address of the owner of the site collection.

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration
Assembly: Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)

Syntax

public SPSite Add(
	string siteUrl,
	string ownerLogin,
	string ownerEmail
)

Parameters

siteUrl: Type: System.String
A String that contains the URL for the site collection, for example, Site_Name or sites/Site_Name. It may either be server-relative or absolute for typical sites.

ownerLogin: Type: System.String
A String that contains the user name of the owner of the site collection (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.

ownerEmail: Type: System.String
A String that contains the e-mail address of the owner of the site collection.

Return value

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

Examples

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

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

SPSite newSiteCollection = siteCollections.Add("sites/Site_Collection", 
    "DOMAIN\\User", "Email_Address");

Reference

SPSiteCollection class

SPSiteCollection members

Add overload

Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration namespace

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