Introduction
Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in SharePoint 2010.
Question: What is a list?
In simple terms "When you create a custom list, a new empty list is created with just two columns - Title and Attachments. The list contains a single default view. Once you create the list, you can add more columns, views, and so on".
I think we are now good to go and implement this wonderful concept.
Step 1: Create a custom list and modify the view.
Step 2: Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and navigate to a specific site.
Step 3: Open up Visual Studio 2010 and create an "Empty SharePoint project":
Step 4: Select "Deploy as a farm solution" and click on the "Finish" button. Now an empty project will be created:
Step 5: Add a new visual webpart for that project:
Step 6: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx looks like this:
<%@ Assembly Name="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$" %>
<%@ Assembly Name="Microsoft.Web.CommandUI, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="Utilities" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="asp" Namespace="System.Web.UI" Assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages"
Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>
<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="MultiLineWebPartUserControl.ascx.cs"
Inherits="MultiLineList.MultiLineWebPart.MultiLineWebPartUserControl" %>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" text="List Choice via Object Modelling - SharePoint 2010"
font-bold="true" font-size="Large" font-names="Verdana" forecolor="Maroon"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label2" runat="server" text="Please Enter First Column Name" font-size="Large"
font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:textbox id="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label3" runat="server" text="Please Enter Second Column Name" font-size="Large"
font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:textbox id="TextBox2" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label4" runat="server" text="Please Enter Third Choice Column Name"
font-size="Large" font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:textbox id="TextBox3" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label8" runat="server" text="Please Enter Fourth Multi-Line Column Name"
font-size="Large" font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:textbox id="TextBox6" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<br />
<br />
<fieldset>
<legend style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">Enter ChoiceList
Items</legend>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label6" runat="server" text="Please Enter First List Item Name " font-size="Large"
font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td style="text-align: right">
<asp:textbox id="TextBox4" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:label id="Label7" runat="server" text="Please Enter Second List Item Name "
font-size="Large" font-names="Verdana" font-italic="true"></asp:label>
</td>
<td style="text-align: right">
<asp:textbox id="TextBox5" runat="server"></asp:textbox>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<br />
</div>
</fieldset>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:button id="Button2" runat="server" text="Create List Fields" font-names="Verdana"
width="166px" backcolor="Orange" font-bold="True" onclick="Button2_Click" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:label id="Label5" runat="server" font-bold="true" font-names="Verdana" forecolor="Maroon"></asp:label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Step 7: The complete code of visualwebpart1usercontrol.ascx.cs looks like this:
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace MultiLineList.MultiLineWebPart
{
public partial class MultiLineWebPartUserControl : UserControl
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TextBox1.Focus();
}
protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox1.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox2.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox3.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox4.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox5.Text) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(TextBox6.Text))
{
Label5.Text = "Please Enter Some Values";
Label5.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
}
else
{
SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
SPList list = web.Lists["Person"];
SPListItem item = list.Items.Add();
item.Fields.Add(TextBox1.Text, SPFieldType.Text, true);
item.Fields.Add(TextBox2.Text, SPFieldType.Text, true);
item.Fields.Add(TextBox6.Text, SPFieldType.Note, true);
SPFieldChoice fieldChoice = (SPFieldChoice)list.Fields.GetFieldByInternalName(item.Fields.Add(TextBox3.Text, SPFieldType.Choice, true));
string[] types =
{
TextBox4.Text, TextBox5.Text };
fieldChoice.Choices.AddRange(types);
fieldChoice.Update();
SPView view = list.DefaultView;
view.ViewFields.Add(TextBox1.Text);
view.ViewFields.Add(TextBox2.Text);
view.ViewFields.Add(TextBox3.Text);
view.ViewFields.Add(TextBox6.Text);
view.Update();
Label5.Text = "Fields Created Successfully";
Label5.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green;
TextBox1.Text = string.Empty;
TextBox2.Text = string.Empty;
TextBox3.Text = string.Empty;
TextBox4.Text = string.Empty;
TextBox5.Text = string.Empty;
TextBox6.Text = string.Empty;
}
}
}
}
Step 8: Deploy the solution file and add the created webpart to a SharePoint site.
Step 9: The output of the application looks like this:
Step 10: MutliLine field entering output of the application looks like this:
Step 11: Data entering in list output of the application looks like this:
Step 12: Data entered in list output of the application looks like this:
I hope this article is useful for you.
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