Question

I have a SharePoint list that gets installed by a feature.

I need to enable content types which I do so in a feature receiver:

SPList list = site.Lists["NameOfList"];
list.ContentTypesEnabled = true;
list.Update();

The problem is that it seems the method:site.Lists[“NameOfList”], is really looking at the Title not the ID.

How can I get the list by using the ID and NOT the title which is subject to change because of Localization…

 <ListInstance
    TemplateType="10051" 
    Id="ThisISTheIDField"  //Want to retrieve list instance based on this field.
    Title="$Resources:MyFile,MyResourceName;"
    Url="Lists/URLOFList"
    OnQuickLaunch="TRUE">
  </ListInstance>

Thanks in advance. And 10 years of hail Maries for the MS SharePoint developer who wrote this internal dare I say – c.r.a.p?

Answer 1

So your list is a custom list, right?

You can add:

EnableContentTypes=TRUE 

To your list definition and you won’t need the feature?

See: List Element