GroupCollection Class
Represents a collection of Group objects.
Inheritance Hierarchy
System.Object
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientObject
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientObjectCollection
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientObjectCollection<Group>
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.GroupCollection
Namespace: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client
Assemblies: Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Silverlight.dll); Microsoft.SharePoint.Client (in Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
<ScriptTypeAttribute("SP.GroupCollection", ServerTypeId := "{0b9f0e6c-2c15-425e-b0b2-961f78bf1ecf}")> _
Public Class GroupCollection _
Inherits ClientObjectCollection(Of Group)
'Usage
Dim instance As GroupCollection
[ScriptTypeAttribute("SP.GroupCollection", ServerTypeId = "{0b9f0e6c-2c15-425e-b0b2-961f78bf1ecf}")]
public class GroupCollection : ClientObjectCollection<Group>
Examples
This code example adds the current user to the visitors group on the current site.
using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
namespace Microsoft.SDK.SharePointFoundation.Samples
{
class GroupCollectionExample
{
static void Main()
{
string siteUrl = "http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection";
ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);
Web site = clientContext.Web;
GroupCollection collGroup = site.SiteGroups;
// Get the visitors group, assuming its ID is 4.
Group visitorsGroup = collGroup.GetById(4);
User currentUser = site.CurrentUser;
UserCollection collUser = visitorsGroup.Users;
collUser.AddUser(currentUser);
clientContext.Load(currentUser);
clientContext.Load(visitorsGroup);
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
Console.WriteLine(currentUser.Title + " added to group " + visitorsGroup.Title);
}
}
}
Thread Safety
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.