Setting listview webpart properties in CAML

Scenario:
List View web parts are different than other kind of Sharepoint web part in their CAML representation.

Other web parts uses AllUsersWebPart tag which allow easy access to all the properties, so setting properties is easy.

List View webparts uses View Tag to place them on the page. Now we wanted to set some
of it properties which has different values from its default settings.

Solution:
Its was not that difficult to that but finding this undocumented solution was the difficult part :-)

Below example shows how to set AllowZoneChange property to false by default.

Sample Code ( Elements.xml) :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements Id="NewGUID" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <Module Name="Default" Url="" Path="">
      <File Url="default.aspx" NavBarHome="True">
        <View List="Lists/Announcements" BaseViewID="0" WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="1" Type="HTML">
          <![CDATA[
                   <WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
                        <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
                        <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart</TypeName>
                        <Title>Announcements</Title>
                        <AllowRemove>false</AllowRemove>
                        <AllowZoneChange>false</AllowZoneChange>
                        <AllowMinimize>false</AllowMinimize>
                        <AllowConnect>false</AllowConnect>
                        <AllowEdit>false</AllowEdit>
                        <AllowHide>false</AllowHide>
                   </WebPart>
            ]]>
  </View>
    </File>
  </Module>
</Elements>