SPSiteCollection.Add method (String, String, String)

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)

'Declaration
Public Function Add ( _
    siteUrl As String, _
    ownerLogin As String, _
    ownerEmail As String _
) As SPSite
'Usage
Dim instance As SPSiteCollection
Dim siteUrl As String
Dim ownerLogin As String
Dim ownerEmail As String
Dim returnValue As SPSite

returnValue = instance.Add(siteUrl, ownerLogin, _
    ownerEmail)

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

• 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.

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

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

Dim webApp As SPWebApplication = New SPSite("http://MySiteCollection").WebApplication
Dim siteCollections As SPSiteCollection = webApp.Sites

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

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

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

SPSiteCollection class

SPSiteCollection members

Add overload

Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration namespace