How can I tell whether a webpart that has been deployed to a site is a native webpart that ships wit
- by program247365
I have a SharePoint 2007 MOSS instance, and I'm on a fact-finding mission. There have been multiple developers, developing multiple webparts and deploying them (using VS2005/2008 SharePoint Extensions).
I thought maybe I could look at the fields in the "Web Part Gallery" list in my site, and look by "Modified by", but it looks like a developer's name is on some of the out-of-the-box webparts somehow, and on ones I know are custom developed, they say "System Account" - so looking at that field in this list is a no go.
I thought then maybe I could look at the "Group" to which each webpart was assigned but it looks like they were arbitrarily assigned to many different groups inconsistently - so using that piece of information is a no go.
Here is my code I have for just looping through and getting the names of all the webparts. Is there any property I can access on the list items of webparts that would tell me whether it's a custom developed webpart? Any way to distinguish the custom webparts from the out-of-the-box ones? Is there another way to do this?
#region Misc Site Collection Methods
public static List<string> GetAllWebParts(string connectedSPInstanceUrl)
{
List<string> lstWebParts = new List<string>();
try
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(connectedSPInstanceUrl))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPList list = web.Lists["Web Part Gallery"];
foreach (SPListItem item in list.Items)
{
lstWebParts.Add(item.Name);
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
lstWebParts.Add("Error");
lstWebParts.Add("Message: " + ex.Message);
lstWebParts.Add("Inner Exception: " + ex.InnerException.ToString());
lstWebParts.Add("Stack Trace: " + ex.StackTrace);
}
return lstWebParts;
}
#endregion
