Update… I put together a PowerShell version of this here: http://techtrainingnotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/finding-sharepoint-guids-using.html (so now you have four versions!)
Update… I put together a version of this that uses the SharePoint web services so you can get the GUIDs without having to be on the server. The EXE and the C# project can be downloaded here.
So now you have three versions, API from a Windows app, API from a LAYOUTs page and Web Services from a Windows app.
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Just a little code to share…. :-)
I needed a quick way to find the GUIDs used on a SharePoint site so I wrote a little C# routine to display them. Below is the sample code for both a Windows app and a SharePoint Layouts ASPX page.
The Windows Version:
As this calls the API instead of the web services so this will need to be run from one of the SharePoint servers.
Add a textbox, a button and a listbox on a form then…
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace WindowsApplication2
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{ InitializeComponent(); }
private void listBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
textBox1.Text = listBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
listBox1.Items.Clear();
SPSite site;
try
{
site = new SPSite(txtSiteURL.Text);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
return;
}
listBox1.Items.Add("Site: " + site.ID.ToString());
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web; //site.RootWeb;
listBox1.Items.Add("Web: " + web.ID.ToString());
foreach (SPList list in web.Lists)
{
listBox1.Items.Add(list.Title + ": " + list.ID.ToString());
}
}
}
}
The Layouts folder version:
Create a text file in the SharePoint LAYOUTS folder with a name like “getGuids.aspx” and paste the following code. Run the page from any site: http://youserver/yoursite/_layouts/getGuids.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ListBox1.Items.Clear();
SPSite site;
site = SPContext.Current.Site;
ListBox1.Items.Add("Site: " + site.ID.ToString());
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web; // site.RootWeb;
ListBox1.Items.Add("Web: " + web.ID.ToString());
foreach (SPList list in web.Lists)
{
ListBox1.Items.Add(list.Title + ": " + list.ID.ToString());
}
}
private void ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TextBox1.Text = Request.Form["ListBox1"];
}
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Width="530px" />
<br /><br />
Click to copy to the text box.<br />
<asp:ListBox ID="ListBox1" runat="server"
OnSelectedIndexChanged="ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged"
Rows="20" AutoPostBack="True"/></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
