SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

I just stumbled accross a handy little utility that is really handy during SharePoint development: Show List and ViewGUIDs.

Type a Site URL, and select “Display Lists Titles and Ids”. From the list of lists you can select a list GUID, and with right-click copy it to the List ID input field.

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After clicking “Display Views” you see the available list views. Again you can select a view guid, and with right-click copy it to the View input field.

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Select “Display Items” to display the list items in the view.

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With a click on “Display default List Attribute Names” de internal names of the fields in the list are displayed.

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Very useful if you don't have tools like SharePoint Explorer or SharePoint Inspector installed, or if you find those tools too large/slow/complex to get some GUIDs and name information fast.

Published Sunday, January 06, 2008 5:56 PM by svdoever
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Monday, January 07, 2008 2:38 PM by Mark Arend

# re: SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

Hey, Serge... (back to SharePoint, are you? it's still my life).  This is a nice find!  Sometimes the developers are not given access to production servers command line and this is helpful to troubleshoot remotely.  Hope you are well!

Monday, January 21, 2008 7:36 PM by Michael Taube

# re: SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

This is an excellent tool. More handy than the Inspector or Explorer, since it uses web services.

I was teaching myself the Web Services API and using Fiddler, I was able to figure out how you called everything. It saved me tons of time. Thanks!

Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:14 PM by Kevin Bates

# re: SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

Any chance of getting this source code on this one?

Friday, March 14, 2008 3:46 PM by Paul Qualls

# re: SharePoint development: handy little utility to get GUID’s and Attribute names

Any Source code available?

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