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Field Class

SharePoint 2010

Represents a field in a list on a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web site.

System.Object
  Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientObject
    Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Field

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
Assemblies: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll); Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.dll)

Syntax

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[ScriptTypeAttribute("SP.Field", ServerTypeId = "{c4121b04-0f57-4b1d-a145-d25426b16480}")]
public class Field : ClientObject

Remarks

A field is an element of a list or content type schema that specifies a property that is tracked for a list item. A field has an Internal Name, which specifies an identifier for the field. A field internal name is unique among other fields within a list and cannot contain spaces. A field has an Id, which is a GUID.A field has a specified field type. A field also contains state information for settings and additional metadata specified by the field type.

Examples

This code example gets a specified field, creates a description for the field, and displays the field title and new description.

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using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePointFoundation.Samples
{
    class FieldExample
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            string siteUrl = "http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection";

            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);
            Web site = clientContext.Web;
            List taskList = site.Lists.GetByTitle("Tasks");

            FieldCollection collField = taskList.Fields;
            Field oneField = collField.GetByInternalNameOrTitle("Title");
            oneField.Description = "MyNewFieldDescription";
            oneField.Update();
            
            clientContext.Load(collField);
            clientContext.Load(oneField);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

            string fieldInfo = "Field Title: " + oneField.Title + "\n" + 
               "Description: " + oneField.Description + "\n";
            Console.WriteLine(fieldInfo);

        }

    }
}

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Reference

Field Members

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client Namespace

Inheritance Hierarchy

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