Project Server 2013 - Create project in PWA - CSOM

In this article, I will show you how to create project in PWA site using CSOM in project server 2013. In this series of articles, I am taking windows application as a working example to read/write data from PWA.

Prerequisites

1.      Visual studio 2010/2012/2013/2015

2.      Copy Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.dll from SharePoint 2013 servers from the location

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI

Step1: Create windows application from visual studio

Step2: Add Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.dll

Step3: Add one two text boxes and one button control to the form.

Step4: Declare PWA site URL in form load. Change URL accordingly based on your environment

private const string pwaPath = "https://dev.xxx.com/PWA/";

Step5: Declare project context and project type on Form load

private static ProjectContext projContext;

private static string basicEpt = "Enterprise Project - Default";   // Basic enterprise project type.

Step6: Add following code on button click event

private void createproject_Click (object sender, EventArgs e)

{

 

// create PWA context

projContext = new ProjectContext(pwaPath);

 

// Access with default logged in credentials

projContext.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

 

            try

             {               

                ProjectCreationInformation newProj = new ProjectCreationInformation();

 

                newProj.Id = Guid.NewGuid();

                newProj.Name = txtProjectName.Text;

                newProj.Description = txtProjectDesc.Text;

                newProj.Start = DateTime.Today.Date;

 

                newProj.EnterpriseProjectTypeId = GetEptUid(basicEpt);

 

                PublishedProject newPublishedProj = projContext.Projects.Add(newProj);

                QueueJob qJob = projContext.Projects.Update();

 

                projContext.Load(qJob);

                projContext.Load(projContext.Projects);

                projContext.ExecuteQuery();

 

                JobState jobState = projContext.WaitForQueue(qJob, timeoutSeconds);

 

                label1.ForeColor = Color.Green;

 

                label1.Text = "Successfully created project-" + txtProjectName.Text;

 

                txtProjectDesc.Text = "";

                txtProjectName.Text = "";

 

                //LoadProjects(projContext);

 

            }

 

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                label1.ForeColor = Color.Red;

                label1.Text = ex.Message.ToString();

            }

 

        }

           

            //Get/Read the GUID of the specified enterprise project type.

        private static Guid GetEptUid(string eptName)

        {

            Guid eptUid = Guid.Empty;

 

            try

            {

projContext.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

               

                var eptList = projContext.LoadQuery(

                    projContext.EnterpriseProjectTypes.Where(

                        ept => ept.Name == eptName));

                projContext.ExecuteQuery();

 

                eptUid = eptList.First().Id;

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                string msg = string.Format("GetEptUid: eptName = \"{0}\"\n\n{1}",

                    eptName, ex.GetBaseException().ToString());

                throw new ArgumentException(msg);

            }

            return eptUid;

        }

Happy project server programming...