How to get SPUser from SPListItem

This small method will return you the SPUser from any ListeItem. The second parameter is the column which contains the User. In my next snippet I will provide the method for the collection of users.

#region Get SP User         private SPUser GetSPUser(SPListItem item, string ColumnName)         {             SPFieldUser field = item.Fields[ColumnName] as SPFieldUser;               if (field != null && item[ColumnName] != null)             {                 SPFieldUserValue fieldValue = field.GetFieldValue(item[ColumnName].ToString()) as SPFieldUserValue;                 if (fieldValue != null)                 {                     return fieldValue.User;                 }             }             return null;         }         #endregion

 

 

Same piece of code, not in a method

SPFieldUser userFieldOwnedBy = (SPFieldUser)oWeb.Lists[“ListName”].Fields.GetField(“FieldAssignedTo”);                 SPFieldUserValue filedValueOwnedBy = (SPFieldUserValue)userFieldOwnedBy.GetFieldValue(“FieldAssignedTo”); SPUser userAssignedTo = filedValueOwnedBy.User;

 

Thanks for reading. If you have some other explanation – please post a comment… I’ll be happy to hear.

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Partha (Aurum)