Getting SharePoint Enumerable Field Values

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Getting SharePoint Enumerable Field Values

More a quick tip than anything. In the below are two helper methods that make the process a lot easier. The first method will help to normalize the values for handling things like delimiters:

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C#:

private static string NormalizeValue(string fieldValue)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(fieldValue))
{
var str = fieldValue;
if (str.StartsWith(SPFieldMultiChoiceValue.Delimiter))
{
str = str.Substring(SPFieldMultiChoiceValue.Delimiter.Length);
}
if (str.EndsWith(SPFieldMultiChoiceValue.Delimiter))
{
str = str.Substring(0, str.Length - SPFieldMultiChoiceValue.Delimiter.Length);
}
return str.Replace(SPFieldMultiChoiceValue.Delimiter, ", ");
}
return string.Empty;
}

Secondly, we use the helper method to return the enumerable value in a nice generic format.

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public static T ReturnEnumValue<T>(SPListItem listItem, string fieldName, T defaultValue) where T : struct
{
var str = listItem[fieldName] as string;
if ((str == null) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))
{
return defaultValue;
}
var normalized = NormalizeValue(str);
return (T) Enum.Parse(typeof (T), normalized);
}