Question

A. I’d like to know the best way to retrieve the web applications, site collections, sites and libraries of a SharePoint 2007 install (on a farm) and display each of those data in a dropdown list of their own a web part.

B. What type of web part should be used

C. What object model or database/tables do I get those pieces of information from

For example:

"Web Applications" Dropdownlist1

"Site Collections" Dropdownlist2

"Sites" Dropdownlist3

"Libraries" in a scrollable Textarea

Answer 1

SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local;
            SPWebService service = farm.Services.GetValue<SPWebService>("");
            foreach (SPWebApplication webapp in service.WebApplications)
            {
                foreach (SPSite sitecoll in webapp.Sites)
                {
                    foreach (SPWeb web in sitecoll.AllWebs)
                    {
                        <<Use recursion here to Get sub WebS>>
                        web.Dispose(); 
                    }

                    sitecoll.Dispose();   

                }

            }

the above code sample provides code to find listing of all webs in a spfarm you can use the above sample to find all webapplication, sitecollection, webs, use SPListto get all list item from splistcollection available in SPweb.lists