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Sharepoint webpart combobox of lists

I have a webpart that works off of a list but what I'm trying to do create a dropdown that contains a list of sharepoint lists so that when the user edits the page and selects 'modify shared webpart' they are able to choose a list item and that gets parsed back to the webpart.

Any examples or links to examples appreciated!

Thanks

Dan

Solution

  • What you are looking for is called a Toolpart. Take a look at this example for a tutorial on how to create one.

    Overall, your general steps will be:

    1. Create your custom Toolpart class inheriting from Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ToolPart
    2. In your custom Toolpart, override CreateChildControls, write the code to iterate over the lists in your SPWeb, and add those to a DropDownList
    3. In your webpart, override GetToolParts and add your custom ToolPart so that it shows up in the right hand side