How to get a month name from date

We can get the month name using following statement

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(datValue.Month)

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How to get all available page layouts which can be used to create and page

There was a task in which i had to check what all page layouts are available for a current site which can be used to create a new page. So here is the solution

PublishingWeb pubWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);

PageLayout[] pageLayouts = pubWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts();

PageLayout pageLayout = pageLayouts.Where(p => p.Title.Trim() == item["LayoutName"].ToString().Trim()).FirstOrDefault();

if (pageLayout == null)

.......

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Check if List or document/Picture library already exists

During one of my project i came accross this situation many time when i had to check whether list or document library already exists or not. So here is the solution

To check document/picture library there is an existing method which can be used like below

if (!web.GetFolder(strName).Exists)

{

......

}

Here 'strName' is the name of document/picture library.

But for list this method does not work. Unfortunately there is no method to check if list exists so we need to do a trick for that, check out below

SPList list = null;

try

{

list = web.Lists[strListTitle];

}

catch { }

if (list == null)

{

.....

Cheers.

Check if Page is already checked out

It is very helpful while editing the contents of a publishing page to check if desired page is already checked or not.

Here is is the code to check this

Sol 1:

if (pPage.ListItem.File.CheckOutType == SPFile.SPCheckOutType.None)

pPage.CheckOut();

Sol 2:

SPFile fileSource = web.GetFile(strSourceFilePath);

SPUser user = null;

user = fileSource.CheckedOutBy;

if (user != null)

{....

If we does not check so then we may get error that page is already checked out.

Open a SharePoint popup after server trip

Last day i had a task in which when user clicks a button few pages got created at runtime and after this i had to show the popup window which will show a aspx page having status of all created pages whether successfully created or failed.

Challenge was to open the popup when button click server trip done (Page rerendered).

My method was creating a javascript at run time to open a popup. But issue was when it runs i gets a javascript error.

"Object Doesn't support this property or method"

Issue was my javascript was getting called even before its supporting js files gets load.

After some rnd i found the solution and here it is.

string strScript = "function OpenDialog() { var option = SP.UI.$create_DialogOptions(); option.url = '" + strPath + "'; option.width = 380; option.height = 330; SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(option); } ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(OpenDialog, \"sp.ui.dialog.js\");";

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.GetType(), "ShowStatusfunction", strScript, true);

Key thing is ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(OpenDialog, \"sp.ui.dialog.js\");";

What it does is, it will wait untill the specified js gets load then it will call the method

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How to add a picker to select a site or website and pass the selected site url in textbox

check this article from PlanetWilson SharePoint Blog its good

http://planetwilson.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-add-picker-to-send-to-other.html

SharePoint field objects – classname, name and types

While working on one of SharePoint project I searched for classnames and fieldtypes that I needed to identify all different field types.

Following table shows most important fields for list.

important fields.

Classname	Type	TypeAsString	TypeDisplayName	TypeShortDescription
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldBoolean	Boolean	Boolean	Yes/No	Yes/No (check box)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCalculated	Calculated	Calculated	Calculated	Calculated (calculation based on other columns)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldChoice	Choice	Choice	Choice	Choice (menu to choose from)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldComputed	Computed	Computed	Computed	Computed
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFIeld	ContentTypeId	ContentTypeId	Content Type Id	Content Type Id
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCurrency	Currency	Currency	Currency	Currency ($, , ?)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldDateTime	DateTime	DateTime	Date and Time	Date and Time
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldFile	File	File	File	File
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPField	Guid	Guid	Guid	Guid
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldNumber	Integer	Integer	Integer	Integer
Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.BusinessDataField	Invalid	BusinessData	Business data	Business data
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.ContentTypeIdFieldType	Invalid	ContentTypeIdFieldType	Content Type Id	Content Type Id
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.HtmlField	Invalid	HTML	Publishing HTML	Full HTML content with formatting and constraints for publishing
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.ImageField	Invalid	Image	Publishing Image	Image with formatting and constraints for publishing
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.LayoutVariationsField	Invalid	LayoutVariationsField	Variations	Page Layout Variations
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.LinkField	Invalid	Link	Publishing Hyperlink	Hyperlink with formatting and constraints for publishing
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.PublishingScheduleEndDateField	Invalid	PublishingScheduleEndDateFieldType	Publishing Schedule End Date	Publishing Schedule End Date
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.PublishingScheduleStartDateField	Invalid	PublishingScheduleStartDateFieldType	Publishing Schedule Start Date	Publishing Schedule Start Date
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Fields.SummaryLinkField	Invalid	SummaryLinks	SummaryLinks	Summary Links data
Microsoft.Office.Server.WebControls.FieldTypes.SPFieldTargetTo	Invalid	TargetTo	Audience Targeting	Audience Targeting
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldLookup	Lookup	Lookup	Lookup	Lookup (information already on this site)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldLookup	Lookup	LookupMulti	Lookup	Lookup (information already on this site)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldNumber	Number	Number	Number	Number (1, 1.0, 100)
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldRecurrence	Recurrence	Recurrence	Recurrence	Recurrence
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldMultiLineText	Note	Note	Multiple lines of text	Multiple lines of text
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldText	Text	Text	Single line of text	Single line of text
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUrl	URL	URL	Hyperlink or Picture	Hyperlink or Picture
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldUser

Samples:

SPSite site = new SPSite("http://office2007");

    SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

    SPList list = web.Lists["Documenten"];

    // Add a new text field

    list.Fields.Add("NewTextField", SPFieldType.Text, false);

    // Add a new HTML field

    HtmlField htmlField = new HtmlField(

        list.Fields, "HTML", "NewHTMLField");

    list.Fields.Add(htmlField);

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