How to Insert Item in Sharepoint List using WebService with Javascript

Without using Sharepoint API we can achieve by OOB. In following code I have inserting items in MyList and ID and Title.

You can call the from a button with the following code

<input type="button" value="Save List Item" onclick="javascript:SaveListItem();">

function SaveListItem()
{
var soapRequest = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' +
'<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">' +
' <soap12:Body>'+
' <UpdateListItems xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/">'+
' <listName>TestList</listName>'+
' <updates>'+
'<Batch OnError="Continue">'+
' <Method ID="1" Cmd="New">'+
' <Field Name="ID">New</Field>'+
' <Field Name="Title">TestData</Field>'+
' </Method>'+
'</Batch>'+
' </updates>'+
' </UpdateListItems>'+
' </soap12:Body>'+
'</soap12:Envelope>';
xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.open('post', 'http://ServerName/SiteCollection/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx', true);
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8');
xmlHttp.send(soapRequest);
}

How to Delete attachment from an Item in Sharepoint List

public static void DeleteAttachements(int id)

{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://portal"))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPListItem listItem = web.Lists["mylist"].GetItemById(id);
List<string> fileNames = new List<string>();
foreach (string fileName in listItem.Attachments)
{
fileNames.Add(fileName);
}
foreach(string fileName in fileNames)
{
listItem.Attachments.Delete(fileName);
}
listItem.update();
}
}
}

How to Update User Profile using C#

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“http://portal”))

{
Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext Context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager Mngr = new UserProfileManager(Context);
Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfile Profile = Mngr.GetUserProfile(“litwareinc\ashishk”);
System.Console.Write(Profile[“Title”].Value.ToString());
Profile[“Title”].Value = “New Title”;
Profile.Commit();
}


Bingo, here ashishk Title is updated with "New Title"

How to retrieve account names from UserProfile

It is quite difficult to get accountnames from userprofile database. Using SDK, you can get the account by following example

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(http://portal/))
{
        ServerContext context = ServerContext.GetContext(site);
        UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);

        foreach (UserProfile profile in profileManager)
       {
             Console.WriteLine(profile[PropertyConstants.AccountName]);
       }
}

Data View conditional formatting using SharePoint Designer

Following article demonstrates how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 conditional formatting to format items in a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) list based on item metadata.

http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html