25 February, 2010

Accessing Built In SharePoint fields

When you’re accessing built in SharePoint fields (such as Title) from code, do you go:

listItem["Title"] = xVar;
listItem[0] = xVar;

Don’t! Have a look at SPBuiltInFieldId that keeps tracks of the Id’s for the built in fields for you:

string title = myListItem[SPBuiltInFieldIds.Title];

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