Retrieve Images From SharePoint Document Library Particular Folder Using C#

In this article I would like to share the code and steps to retrieve the images from SharePoint document library particular folder using server side object model,

Already we saw how to create a SharePoint document library with folders using vs 2015 .

What a SharePoint Document Library is,

• A Document Library is a collection of files that you can share as documents with your team members.
• A Document Library stores the files and you can maintain the data in various folders.
• A SharePoint Document Library is a place on a site where you can create, collect, and update files with others.
• You can set the permission to each Document Library for the users.
• You can show a Document Library in web part pages as List View Web Parts.

Use the below code to retrieve the images from SP document library folder,

Step 1

Open the ascx file in your project add the below html, Make sure to refer the bootstrap files

<div class="row">
    <div class="carousel slide" id="myCarousel" data-ride="carousel">
        <ul class="carousel-indicators" id="carouselIndicatordiv" runat="server"> </ul>
        <div class="carousel-inner" id="carousaldiv" runat="server"> </div> <a class="carousel-control left" href="#myCarousel" data-slide="prev" id="leftIcon" runat="server"></a> <a class="carousel-control right" href="#myCarousel" data-slide="next" id="rightIcon" runat="server"></a> </div>
</div>

Step 2

Open the ascx.cs file in your project. On the page Load call your method like below,

Step 3

Add below code to your solution

private void GetSliderImages() {
    try {
        _web = SPContext.Current.Web;
        string webUrl = _web.Url;
        using(SPSite site = new SPSite(webUrl)) {
            using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) {
                SPList list = web.Lists[CommonConstants.List_DepartmentSliderLib];
                if (list != null) {
                    SPListItemCollection spListItemCollection = null;
                    foreach(SPFolder subFolder in list.RootFolder.SubFolders) {
                        if (subFolder.Name.ToLower() == “folderName”) {
                            SPQuery spQuery = new SPQuery();
                            spQuery.Folder = subFolder;
                            spQuery.Query = @ "<OrderBy><FieldRef Name='Created' Ascending='FALSE' /></OrderBy>";
                            spQuery.RowLimit = 4;
                            spListItemCollection = list.GetItems(spQuery);
                            StringBuilder stringCollection = new StringBuilder();
                            string carouselIndString = string.Empty;
                            int count = 0;
                            if (spListItemCollection.Count > 0) {
                                foreach(SPListItem item in spListItemCollection) {
                                    string ImageUrl = Convert.ToString(item[CommonConstants.Field_EncodedAbsUrl]);
                                    string ImageName = Convert.ToString(item[CommonConstants.Field_Name]);
                                    if (count == 0) {
                                        stringCollection.AppendFormat("<div class='item active'><img src = '" + ImageUrl + "' alt = '" + ImageName + "' /></div>");
                                        carouselIndString += "<li class='active' data-slide-to='" + count + "' data-target='#myCarousel'></li>";
                                    } else {
                                        carouselIndString += "<li data-slide-to='" + count + "' data-target='#myCarousel'></li>";
                                        stringCollection.AppendFormat("<div class='item'><img src = '" + ImageUrl + "' alt = '" + ImageName + "' /></div >");
                                    }
                                    count++;
                                }
                                carouselIndicatordiv.InnerHtml = carouselIndString;
                                carousaldiv.InnerHtml = stringCollection.ToString();
                                leftIcon.InnerHtml = "<span class='glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left'></span><span class='sr-only'>Previous</span>";
                                rightIcon.InnerHtml = "<span class='glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right'></span><span class='sr-only'>Next</span>";
                            }
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    _commonUtil.LogExceptionToULS(CommonConstants.List_DepartmentSliderLib + " - List is not available", Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.TraceSeverity.High);
                }
            }
        }
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        _commonUtil.LogExceptionToULS(ex.ToString(), Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.TraceSeverity.High);
    }
}

Finally, slider images will be shown from the particular folder.

Summary

In this article we have explored how to retrieve the images from particular folders in SharePoint document library. Happy coding!!