Sharepoint

Posted March 28th, 2008 by Eric Webb

I’ve been meaning to post my thoughts about my recent foray into Sharepoint for awhile now and since I finally have some time, here goes.

Development on Sharepoint sucks if you’re not doing it directly on the server.
-I can’t even count the number of hours I’ve spent copying a .cab file to the server, running stsadm.exe -o addwppack and restarting IIS.
Documentation for development on Sharepoint sucks.
-This was the first time I’ve ever developed against a platform with such limited documentation/examples. While it was pretty interesting, I would prefer to not do something like this again.

That being said, I thought I would post some of the code that I’ve written that may be useful. This first webpart allows you to search for users in the AD tree associated with your site:

private DataTable Search()
{
    SPSite siteCollRoot = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.Url);
    DataTable dt = new DataTable();

    //must log in to the SSP and give the NT_Authority\Authenticated
    //users the Manage User Profiles and Personal site permissions
    //here (http://localhostssp/admin/_layouts/ManageServicePermissions.aspx)
    //in order for the code below to work
    //for all users
    SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
    {

        using (SPSite siteColl = new SPSite(siteCollRoot.ID))
        {
            ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(siteColl);
            UserProfileManager upm = new UserProfileManager(context);
            UserProfile currentProfile;
            IEnumerator enumProfs = upm.GetEnumerator();
            bool continueEnum = true;

            DataColumn dc = new DataColumn("Title");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("EMail");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("JobTitle");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("Department");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("WorkPhone");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("ID");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("LastName");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            dc = new DataColumn("FirstName");
            dt.Columns.Add(dc);

            while (continueEnum)
            {
                try
                {
                    continueEnum = enumProfs.MoveNext();
                }

                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("EXCEPTION in enum: " + e.ToString());
                    continueEnum = enumProfs.MoveNext();
                }
                currentProfile = (UserProfile)enumProfs.Current;

                try
                {
                    DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
                    dr["ID"] = currentProfile.ID.ToString();
                    dr["Title"] = currentProfile["PreferredName"].ToString();
                    dr["EMail"] = currentProfile["WorkEmail"].ToString();
                    dr["JobTitle"] = currentProfile["Title"].ToString();
                    dr["Department"] = currentProfile["Department"].ToString();
                    dr["WorkPhone"] = currentProfile["WorkPhone"].ToString();
                    dr["LastName"] = currentProfile["LastName"].ToString();
                    dr["FirstName"] = currentProfile["FirstName"].ToString();

                    dt.Rows.Add(dr);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {

                }

            }

        }
    });

    return dt;
}