SharePoint Fundamentals – How do I programmatically get a reference to a SharePoint site following Best Practices using C#

This is one of the most fundamental building blocks for all SharePoint developers. We get references to SPWeb and SPSite objects all the time without ever giving a second thought to how it’s done. I’ve decided to document the recommended way to do this, combining guidance I frequently provide to SharePoint admins with regard to dealing with developer code via the Developer Dashboard. This little snippet is thus intended to start guiding developers towards making it a habit to wrap sections of code in the SPMonitoredScope class. I have provided the complete namespace of objects for completeness sake.

A reference to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.dll is required.

Here’s the code:

using (new Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPMonitoredScope("ScopeName"))
{
  using (Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite sps = new Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("SiteURL"))
  {
    using (Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb spw = sps.OpenWeb())
    {
      //Do something
    }
  }
}

Cheers
C