Assign default page of Publishing site to custom page during site provisioning

In my previous post, I have highlighted how to create pages in Pages library using CAML when a site is being provisioned.
We had created Home.aspx custom page.
 

Requirement:
We need to set Home.aspx as the default welcome page of the site, when the site is being provisioned.

Solution:
We can achieve this by putting a piece of code in the feature receiver.

//Get the Publishing Web object

PublishingWeb objPublishingWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);

//Get the Home.aspx file from Pages library

SPFile objHomePageFile = web.GetFile(objPublishingWeb.PagesListName + "/Home.aspx");            

//Set default page of publishing web

objPublishingWeb.DefaultPage = objHomePageFile;

objPublishingWeb.Update();

web.Update();

  

If we browse the site now, Home.aspx opens up as the default page.