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Niklas Nihlén
Niklas Nihlén
07 January, 2008

Iterating Over and Deleting SharePoint Groups Programmatically

Ever wanted to do something with the groups within SharePoint 2007 programmatically? Here is some sample code you might find useful.

Iterating:

public IListstring> GetAllUserGroups(string url)
{
    IListstring> groupList = new Liststring>();

    using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url))
    {
        SPGroupCollection groups = site.RootWeb.SiteGroups;
        foreach (SPGroup g in groups)
        {
            groupList.Add(g.Name);
        }
    }

    return groupList;
}

Deleting:

public void DeleteUserGroups(IListstring> GroupNames, string url)
{
    using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url))
    {
        SPGroupCollection groups = site.RootWeb.SiteGroups;

        foreach (string groupname in GroupNames)
        {
            groups.Remove(groupname);
        }
    }
}

That code sure could do with some error handling around the remove statement.

Tags: SharePoint