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SPList.GetItems Method (SPView)

SharePoint 2010

Windows SharePoint Services 3

Returns a collection of items from the list based on the specified view.

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint
Assembly: Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)
Available in Sandboxed Solutions: Yes
Available in SharePoint Online

Syntax

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public SPListItemCollection GetItems(
	SPView view
)

Parameters

view: Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPView
The view to use in selecting list items.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection
The list items specified by the view.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	view is null (Nothing in Visual Basic).

Examples

The following example is a console application that uses the "My Tasks" view of the Tasks list to retrieve list items. After fetching the data, the application prints a simple report to the console.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace Test
{
   class ConsoleApp
   {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost"))
         {
            using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
            {
               // Get data from a list.
               string listUrl = web.ServerRelativeUrl + "/lists/tasks";
               SPList list = web.GetList(listUrl);
               SPView view = list.Views["My Tasks"];
               SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(view);

               // Get a collection of view field names.
               StringCollection viewFields = view.ViewFields.ToStringCollection();

               // Print data for each item in the view.
               foreach (SPListItem item in items)
               {
                  // Print the value of each view field.
                  foreach (string fieldName in viewFields)
                  {
                     Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", fieldName, item[fieldName]);
                  }
                  Console.WriteLine();
               }
            }
         }
         Console.ReadLine();
      }
   }
}

Reference

SPList Class

SPList Members

GetItems Overload

Microsoft.SharePoint Namespace

GetItems(String, String[])

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