Working with MOSS 2007 is simple and easy since you can create your own lists and manage them through SharePoint website settings. But when we start building a website under SharePoint, we need to manage and customize these lists from the code. I created a small website using Microsoft.SharePoint.dll, to manage SharePoint lists.

I created a small website that is able to read all Lists created in any SharePoint website, and allow the management of these lists, you can add, edit. delete Lists, List Items, fields…

The whole idea started when we got a task from one of our clients to post data to the SharePoint calendar automatically. So we needed a tool to allow to post any information to the SharePoint List “Calendar”.

I had to add a new column for the Calendar under the name “Assigned To” of type “User” and which will be the current logged in user in the SharePoint website.

In this way, we can add tasks for every user, and it will be automatically displayed in the SharePoint Calendar.

For more options, we can modify the Calendar View, and allow only the tasks for the current logged in User. This can be done by clicking on Modify This View option for the Calendar and we can add a new filter for this view:

“Show items only when the following is true”

Show the items when column : “Assigned To” is equal to “[Me]”

In this case any logged in user will be able to see his own Tasks.

For more information about how to manage the SPLists, you can check my article on CodeProject:

SPList Management By Code