Question

How could I find out if a URL is available and usable to create a new site within a site collection or whether it is already in use by an other site, list or library?

Assumed that the relative URL ‘/newUrl/ is not yet in use, the following code won’t actually throw an exception until you try to access any of the SPWeb’s properties.

using(SPSite site = new Site('http://portal/'))  {         SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb('/newUrl/'); // no exception      string title = web.Title;  // throws exception } 

Of course it would be possible to check the availableness of the URL this way, but it would be more like a hack than like good code.

So got anyone any ideas how to solve this?

Bye, Flo

Answer 1

if (web.Exists) 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.exists.aspx