Programming SharePoint List

Objective

In this article, I am going to show how we could work with SharePoint items using object model or in other words using .Net code. I will show you

1. How to add item into the SharePoint list?
2. How to retrieve item from the SharePoint list?
3. How to update item into the SharePoint list?
4. How to delete item from the SharePoint list?

Assumption:

1. I have created a custom list called Reader.
2. There are two columns. One is Reader’sName. This is a single line text column. Second is Reader’sArticle. This is numeric column.
3. I have put some item also in Reader list.

In SharePoint site, Reader list look like as below,

Here, I assume you know how to create a custom list in a SharePoint site and how to put some data into that. If you do not know, read my article on the same here on this site. Now I am going to manipulate the above list through code.
I am going to follow the below steps.

1. Create a window application
2. Add reference of Microsoft.SharePoint dll.
3. Add few controls like buttons and text boxes. I am a bad UI designer. So don’t follow my window form here. You design of yours.
4. Return a site collection using SPSite.
5. Return particular website where list is added using SPWeb.
6. Return collection of list items using SPListItemCollection.
7. Work with a particular list item using SPListItem. 

Adding Microsoft.SharePoint dll

Design of the Form

1. There are two text boxes.
2. Three buttons to add, delete and update.

Explanation

1. I am returning the site collection on the form load.
2. I am returning the top level site also on form load.

Adding to the List

1. Readers is name of the list
2. I am returning the List collection and adding the item into that.
3. I am reading the items to be added from the textboxes.

Code

private void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {string Name = txtName.Text;int Numofarticle = Convert.ToInt32(txtNumberofArticle.Text);
        _ItemCollection = _MyWeb.Lists["Readers"].Items;
        _MyItem = _ItemCollection.Add();
        _MyItem["Reader'sName"] = Name;
        _MyItem["Reader'sArticle"] = Numofarticle;
        _MyItem.Update();
        txtName.Text = "";
        txtNumberofArticle.Text = "";
        MessageBox.Show("Item Added");
    }

Updating to the List

1. Readers is name of the list
2. I am returning the List collection and updating the item into that.
3. I am reading the items to be added from the textboxes.
4. I am iterating through the collection and searching for the Reader’sName to be updated.

Code

private void btnEdit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _ItemCollection = _MyWeb.Lists["Readers"].Items;int count = _ItemCollection.Count;for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            SPListItem item = _ItemCollection[i];if (item["Reader'sName"].ToString() == txtName.Text.ToString())
            {
                item["Reader'sArticle"] = Convert.ToInt32(txtNumberofArticle.Text);
                item.Update();
            }
        }

        MessageBox.Show("Updated");

    }

Deleting from the List

1. Readers is name of the list
2. I am returning the List collection and updating the item into that.
3. I am reading the items to be added from the textboxes.
4. I am iterating through the collection and searching for the Reader’sName to be deleted

Code

private void btnDelete_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        _ItemCollection = _MyWeb.Lists["Readers"].Items;int count = _ItemCollection.Count;for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            SPListItem item = _ItemCollection[i];if (item["Reader'sName"].ToString() == txtName.Text.ToString())
            {
                _ItemCollection.Delete(i);
                count--;
            }
        }
        MessageBox.Show("Deleted");
    }

Complete Code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace ProgrammingList
{public partial class Form1 : Form
    {

        SPSite _MySite = null;
        SPWeb _MyWeb = null;
        SPListItemCollection _ItemCollection = null;
        SPListItem _MyItem = null;public Form1()
        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }private void btnAdd_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(_MyWeb.Title);string Name = txtName.Text;int Numofarticle = Convert.ToInt32(txtNumberofArticle.Text);

            _ItemCollection = _MyWeb.Lists["Readers"].Items;

            _MyItem = _ItemCollection.Add();
            _MyItem["Reader'sName"] = Name;
            _MyItem["Reader'sArticle"] = Numofarticle;
            _MyItem.Update();
            txtName.Text = "";
            txtNumberofArticle.Text = "";
            MessageBox.Show("Item Added");


        }private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            _MySite = new SPSite("http://adfsaccount:2222/");// _MyWeb = _MySite.AllWebs["Document Center"];_MyWeb = _MySite.OpenWeb();

        }private void btnDelete_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            _ItemCollection = _MyWeb.Lists["Readers"].Items;int count = _ItemCollection.Count;for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                SPListItem item = _ItemCollection[i];if (item["Reader'sName"].ToString() == txtName.Text.ToString())
                {
                    _ItemCollection.Delete(i);
                    count--;
                }
            }

            MessageBox.Show("Deleted");

        }private void btnEdit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            _ItemCollection = _MyWeb.Lists["Readers"].Items;int count = _ItemCollection.Count;for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                SPListItem item = _ItemCollection[i];if (item["Reader'sName"].ToString() == txtName.Text.ToString())
                {
                    item["Reader'sArticle"] = Convert.ToInt32(txtNumberofArticle.Text);
                    item.Update();
                }
            }

            MessageBox.Show("Updated");

        }
    }
}

Conclusion

In this article, I showed how to manipulate SharePoint list using code. Thanks for reading. Happy Coding