Programmatically instantiate a web part page in Sharepoint

Question

Is there a simple way to add a web part page to a Sharepoint site programmatically, using either the object model or web services? It seems straight-forward to create lists

Answer 1

An alternative solution to the accepted answer from @AlexAngas is to use the NewWebPage method of the SharePoint Foundation RPC Protocol, as suggested here.

private static void CreateWebPartPage(this SPWeb web, SPList list, string pageName, int layoutTemplate)
{
    const string newWPPage = "" +
                                   "" +
                                   "" +
                                    "{0}" +
                                    "NewWebPage" +
                                    "New" +
                                    "WebPartPage" +
                                    "{2}" +
                                    "true" +
                                    "{1}" +
                                    "" +
                                     "";
    var newWPPageBatchXml = string.Format(newWPPage, list.ID, pageName, layoutTemplate);

    var result = web.ProcessBatchData(newWPPageBatchXml);
}

Usage of the above extension method:

web.CreateWebPartPage(yourList, "NewPage", 2);