SPPurgeList

A few questions:

ishaisagi — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:17:45 GMT

why don't you add this as a feature in my utility pack? http://www.codeplex.com/spstipsUtilityPack

also, you are doing extra loops. why not, instead of using two "foreach" loops, use one "while" loop:

instead of:

foreach (SPListItem item in list.Items)
hItems.Add(item.ID,null);
foreach (int ID in hItems.Keys)
list.Items.DeleteItemById(ID);

do :
while(list.Items.Count>0)
list.Items0.Delete();

UPDATED WIKI: Home

krichie — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:22:22 GMT

Project Description
Allows you to purge the contents from any list or document library on WSS 2.0/SPS2003 or WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007. If you need to retain a list/document library itself (Maintaining its original GUID) without completely deleting the entire list/document library and re-creating, this tool can help. You could certainly use Web Folders (WebDAV) to clear the contents, but users stand the chance of accidentally deleting the contents of the forms folder which is not desirable. As well, you could script and automate the task using this tool if you desired.

Background
I had seen many requests for something like this on the microsoft.public.sharepoint.developmentandprogramming newsgroup. I could see a need for something simple to accomplish this, thus…here ya go .

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0 Production

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT

1.0 Release