weekending in east texas
and ive had just about enough of the internets and asp.net and sharepoint and seo and all that for a few days.
so thank you for keeping up with me here and have a very happy Easter. see you next week.
by the way, i wrote a little class yesterday. might be useful if you want to sort or order the SPListItems in a "Links" List in sharepoint 2003.
yes that's a float - a float not an int! =)
#region SPListItemOrderer : IComparer
public class SPListItemOrderer : IComparer
{
public int Compare(object x, object y)
{
SPListItem sx;
SPListItem sy;
if (x is SPListItem)
{
sx = x as SPListItem;
}
else throw new ArgumentException("Object is not of type SPListItem");
if (y is SPListItem)
{
sy = y as SPListItem;
}
else throw new ArgumentException("Object is not of type SPListItem");
if (sx["Order"] != null || sy["Order"] != null)
return float.Parse(sx["Order"].ToString()).CompareTo(float.Parse(sy["Order"].ToString()));
else throw new ArgumentException("SPListItem does not have an order field");
}
}
#endregion
gah, oh ok, ok.. here's the usage:
// get an array from the collection so we can sort it
ArrayList items = new ArrayList();
foreach (SPListItem item in theList.Items)
{
items.Add(item);
}
SPListItem[] sortableItems = (SPListItem[]) items.ToArray(typeof(SPListItem));
try
{
Array.Sort(sortableItems, new SPListItemOrderer());
} catch { /* do not sort */ }
just in case you want to do something like this ( by the way that inumerating the fields code was a pain!):
foreach (SPListItem si in sortableItems)
{
try
{
// debugging stuff here
//foreach (SPField f in si.Fields)
//{
// try
// {
// strOut += string.Format("<!– {0} : {1} –>\n", f.Title, si[f.Title].ToString());
// }
// catch { }
//}
// the URL item has two fields, comma separated
string itemurl = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(si["URL"].ToString().Split(',')[0].Trim());
string itemname = si["URL"].ToString().TrimStart(itemurl.ToCharArray()).TrimStart(',').Trim();
strOut += string.Format("<tr><td><a href=\"{0}\">{1}</a></td></tr>\n", itemurl, itemname);
}
catch { /* do not create markup for this link */ }
}
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