Better ways- SPSite.AllWebs usage

Question

Hi All,


I am currently using the following code to check if the spweb is there based on the name (sYear) if it is available then i am doing some login . I am sure that oSPSite.AllWebs will surely have performance issues if i have huge webs? Any better way to do this ? THanks in advance!!!

//Get the test center webcollection object
oWebCollection = oSPSite.AllWebs("Sites/Test/TestCenter/").Webs()

//
If Not oSPSite.AllWebs("Sites/Test/TestCenter/").Webs(sYear).Exists() Then

'Do something

End If

Thanks,
Raj

Answer 1

Give this a try - http://hristopavlov.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/a-very-fast-method-to-get-the-site-collections-web-structure/

It will get you a list of all the webs in a site (giving you access to the name, url and ID properties) and you can quickly pass that array to see if it exists - has much better performance (Im using it in a few of my solutions that have similar requirements)

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Brian Farnhill
Microsoft Certified Application Developer
http://pointstoshare.spaces.live.com
Canberra SharePoint User Group

Answer 2

Try using SPSite OpenWeb Method instead.  A comment on the linked msdn site also points out to make sure you dispose your web when you are done.  

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