SPWeb.Groups Property

Gets a collection that contains all the groups for the website.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)
Available in Sandboxed Solutions: Yes
Available in SharePoint Online

Syntax

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property Groups As SPGroupCollection
    Get
'Usage
Dim instance As SPWeb
Dim value As SPGroupCollection

value = instance.Groups

public SPGroupCollection Groups { get; }

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGroupCollection
A collection of SPGroup objects.

Examples

The following code example uses the Groups property to return the collection of groups for a specified site in the current site collection.

This example requires using directives (Imports in Microsoft Visual Basic) for the Microsoft.SharePoint and Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities namespaces.

Using webSite As SPWeb = SPContext.Current.Site.OpenWeb("Website_URL")
    Dim groups As SPGroupCollection = webSite.Groups

    For Each group As SPGroup In groups
        Response.Write((SPEncode.HtmlEncode(group.Name) + "<BR>"))
    Next group
End Using

using (SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Site.OpenWeb("Website_URL"))
{
    SPGroupCollection collGroups = oWebsite.Groups;
    foreach (SPGroup oGroup in collGroups)
    {
        Response.Write(SPEncode.HtmlEncode(oGroup.Name) + "<BR>");
    }
}

See Also

Reference

SPWeb Class

SPWeb Members

Microsoft.SharePoint Namespace

SiteGroups