How to Delete/Update List/Library View in SharePoint Office 365 Programmatically using Patterns and Practices PNP

In the earlier article, we saw, how to Create a List View. In the same manner, we may come across a scenario to delete/update the existing views. The below snippet will be handy for the developers.

 using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Reflection;
 
 namespace Office365.Console
 {
     class Program
     {
         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
             DeleteUpdateView();
         }
 
          
 
         public static void DeleteUpdateView()
         {
             OfficeDevPnP.Core.AuthenticationManager authMgr = new OfficeDevPnP.Core.AuthenticationManager();
 
 
 
             string siteUrl = "https://************.sharepoint.com/sites/DeveloperSite/";
             //string siteUrl = item.TargetSiteUrl;
             string userName = "sathish@****.onmicrosoft.com";
             string password = "********";
 
             
             using (var clientContext = authMgr.GetSharePointOnlineAuthenticatedContextTenant(siteUrl, userName, password))
             {
                 try
                 {
                     Web web = clientContext.Web;
                     
                     clientContext.Load(web);
                     clientContext.Load(web.Lists);
                     clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
 
                     List list = web.Lists.GetByTitle("Test List");
                     clientContext.Load(list);
                     clientContext.Load(list.Views);
                     clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
 
                     //To Delete the View 
                     var lstViewToBeDeleted = list.Views.GetByTitle("Created By Me");
                     lstViewToBeDeleted.DeleteObject();
                     clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
 
                     //To Update the View
                     var lstViewToBeUpdated = list.Views.GetByTitle("All Items Test");
                     lstViewToBeUpdated.ViewQuery = "<OrderBy><FieldRef Name="Modified" Ascending="FALSE" /></OrderBy>";
                     lstViewToBeUpdated.Update();
                     clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
                 }
                 catch (Exception ex)
                 {
                     System.Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                     System.Console.WriteLine("Exception Occured : " + ex.Message);
                     System.IO.File.AppendAllText("C:\Temp\UpdatePropertyBagIndexed.txt", ex.Message + " - " + siteUrl + Environment.NewLine);
                 }
 
 
             }
 
 
             System.Console.WriteLine("Completed....");
             System.Console.WriteLine("Press Any Key to Exit ....");
             System.Console.ReadLine();
         }
          
 
          
     }
 }
 

In the above snippet, I have deleted a view and updated a view. The Update, I have done only the ViewQuery property. Like that, we can update many properties of a view and the ViewQuery itself, can have many CAML Queries.

The Output of the Update will be something like,

Happy Coding,

Sathish Nadarajan.