Comments on: Inconvenient SPWeb.GetFile(string)

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:27 +0000

@Robert: thanks for the feedback, Robert.

By: Robert Draeger

Robert Draeger — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:05:46 +0000

Hey Waldek,
I used to use the following construct:
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(fileUrl, false);
SPFile = web.getFile(fileUrl);
This has worked till today, where the filename contained an underscore (_myfile.jpg) – bad idea…

I tried your method now and got an \"Incorrect function\" exception on the first try, when using SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb. It seems that you have to explicitly open your Web by using SPContext.Current.Site.OpenWeb(\"/\"). Pretty strange though, but now it works.

Cheers, Rob

By: Erdeniz S

Erdeniz S — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:29:09 +0000

Thank you for this article, you have just saved my day heheh

My problem was a bit different, with SPFolder.Files[url] property, it was finding the newly upload file just fine, but file's Item property was null. Same code was working on two other Document Libraries just fine with same security settings, permissions etc…

By: F. Aquino

F. Aquino — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:55:48 +0000

Hi Waldek, the post is a bit old but I wondered something in your 'obscure' example (the 3rd one), site.RootWeb always gets the SPWeb that is also a SPSite (in your case, http://moss, independent of the level of URLs you sent to the constructor), wouldnt the http://moss/Pages/default.aspx exists also?

Also, thanks for the alternate version, might come in handy

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:34:19 +0000

@MJ: As far as I can remember, the above piece code worked correctly in my test.

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:49:11 +0000

Were you able to retrieve default.aspx using web.GetFileOrFolderObject(\\"/site/subsite1/Pages/default.aspx\\")?

My problem is similar but in may case the file actually exists in the subsite but GetFileOrFolderObject() method is throwing exception.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:33:06 +0000

@Donal: No it's not. It's being used to define an Extension Method. It's a .NET 3x feature but you can use it in .NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2008 as well (more info @ http://geekswithblogs.net/robp/archive/2007/12/20/using-extension-methods-in-.net-2.0-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx)

By: Donal

Donal — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:52:25 +0000

I think the 'this' is a typo in your method?

public static SPFile GetFileObject(this SPWeb web, string url)

Nice article though. Saved me some trouble.