CMS7 programmatically create dynamic property

Haven’t used dynamic properties in a long while, but yesterday when building an external module I thought that a dynamic content reference property would be perfect for my needs.

But I wanted to create it programmatically so the deployment would only be copying of files.

I only found a blog post for CMS6. Lucky for me it wasn’t to much that differed. CMS7 code below:

private void SetupDynamicProperty()
{
  var TabDefinitionRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ITabDefinitionRepository>();
  var PropertyDefinitionTypeRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IPropertyDefinitionTypeRepository>();
  var PropertyDefinitionRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IPropertyDefinitionRepository>();
  try
  {
    PropertyDefinition pd = new PropertyDefinition();
    pd.ContentTypeID = 0; // 0 == Dynamic property
    pd.Name = "YourPropertyName;
    pd.EditCaption = "HandbookStartPage";
    pd.Type = PropertyDefinitionTypeRepository.Load(4); // 4 == PageReference
    propertyDefinitionRepository.Save(pd);
  }
  catch { }
}