Feature.EventReceiver Get Web Context


In order to get the current SPWeb context that the feature was activated...

- April 20, 2015

Rest of the Story:

In order to get the current SPWeb context that the feature was activated on I have used the following extension method.  Regardless if the feature is web or site scoped the following GetWeb extension will return the current web context.
Typically, you would do something like the following.  This works fine if the feature is scoped for web.  If however it is scoped for Site then it will no longer work (.Parent becomes SPSite)
SPWeb site = (SPWeb)properties.Feature.Parent; 
Using the following extension you can now use something like the following.
SPWeb web = properties.GetWeb();  //much cleaner

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint;

public static class Extensions { /// <summary> /// Gets the web. /// </summary> /// <param name="properties">The properties.</param> /// <returns></returns> public static SPWeb //http://blog.mattsmith.co.nz/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=c7bdac80-1d4e-4732-9e67-cefde9c03d31&amp;ID=51 GetWeb(this SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties){     SPWeb site;     if (properties.Feature.Parent is SPWeb) {         site = (SPWeb)properties.Feature.Parent;     } else if (properties.Feature.Parent is SPSite) {         site = ((SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent).RootWeb;     } else {         throw new Exception("Unable to retrieve SPWeb - this feature is not Site or Web-scoped.");     }     return site;     } }
Cool eh?