SharePoint Survival

Tools to develope with Sharepoint and WebParts

• OfficeServerSDK.exe
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools – Visual Studio 2005 Extensions.exe
• Windows SharePoint 3.0 Services
• dotnetfx3setup.exe
• ReturnOfSmartPartv1_3.zip
• MS VisualStudio 2008 or 2008

Create a problem list

Site Actions > Create > Task
It is categorized under the Lists section.

Pros / Cons

• Using SmartPart: you can work with normal UserControl, refresh the file .ascx or .ascx.cs at runtime and see the results.
• Using WebParts you can debug your code, but on the machine where sharepoint is installed.

Installation notes

Save the files of the UserControl into the directory UserControls usually in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80\UserControls, but it depends by your sharepoint installation.

Read the content of a list

SPWeb myweb = SPControl.GetContextWeb(Context);
SPList products = myweb.Lists["Products"];
foreach (SPListItem product in products.Items)
{
    // work with items like product["Name"], product["Total"]
    // ..
}

Write into a list

 void ListInsertion(string listName, object[] parameters)
{
	// get the shartepoint context
	SPWeb myweb = SPControl.GetContextWeb(Context);

	// get the list reference
	SPList items = myweb.Lists[listName];

	// insert objects
	if (parameters != null)
	{
		SPListItem newItem = items.Items.Add();
		for (int i = 0; i < parameters.Length; i += 2)
		{
			string key = "" + parameters[i];
			string value = "" + parameters[i + 1];

			// list item creation
			newItem[key] = value;
		}
		newItem.Update();
	}
}

Inspect the field content

 private string GetFieldDescription(SPListItem item)
{
	// analyze all the fields of a single item

	StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
	foreach (SPField field in item.Fields)
	{
		string line = string.Format("title: {0}, description: {1}, related: {2}, value: {3}
"
			,field.Title
			, field.Description
			, field.RelatedField
			, item[field.Title]);
		sb.Append(line);
	}
	return sb.ToString();
}