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SPListItemCollection Class

The SPListItemCollection class represents a collection of SPListItem objects.

System.Object

   Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBaseCollection

      Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollection

Public Methods

The following table shows the public methods of the SPListItemCollection class and a brief description of each.

Name Description
Add Creates an item but requires the Update method to actually add the item to the list.
Delete Deletes the item at the specified index in the collection.
DeleteItemById Deletes the item with the specified integer ID from the collection.
GetDataTable Returns the list item collection as a data table.
GetItemById Returns the item with the specified integer ID from the collection.
ReorderItems Reorders items in the list.

Public Properties

The following table shows the public properties of the SPListItemCollection class, the data type of each property, and a brief description of each.

Name Data Type Description
Count Int32 Gets the number of list items in the collection.
Item(Int32) Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem Gets the list item at the specified index in the collection.
List Microsoft.SharePoint.SPList Gets the parent list of the collection.
ListItemCollectionPosition Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemCollectionPosition Gets an object used to obtain the next set of rows in a paged view of a list.
NumberOfFields Int32 Gets the number of fields that are represented in the collection.
Xml String Gets all the data in the collection in XMLDATA format.
XmlDataSchema String Gets the schema that defines the XML returned by the Xml property.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. Instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Remarks

To return the collection of items for a list or document library, use the Items property or one of the GetItems methods of the SPList class or use the Items property or GetItemsInFolder method of the SPDocumentLibrary class. To create an item, use the Add method represented in the previous table.

Use an indexer to return a single list item from the collection. For example, assuming the collection is assigned to a variable named myItems, use myItems[index] in C#, or myItems(index) in Visual Basic .NET, where index is either the index number of the item in the collection or the display name of a list field.

Example

The following code example uses the GetView method to return particular items from a source list in one site and then adds these items to a destination list in another site.

This example requires using directives (Imports in Visual Basic) for both the Microsoft.SharePoint and Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls namespaces.

Requirements

Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint

Platforms: Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Assembly: Windows SharePoint Services (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)

Security: Code Access Security