Add a new SPView to an SPList - sharepoint-2010

Question

I would need to create views and add them to lists programmatically. In the SPList method there is a Views Property of type SPViewCollection. This has an add method. But this method does not accept a full XML schema. It is divided into a number of paramaters (where you set the query, joins etc). I would need a method where I can just pass the full XML. I was thinking of first creating a 'Dummy' view using this Add method and then reading the View back, and finally using the SetViewXml. But it is a bit of dirty approach - perhaps there is something better and simpler that I am missing. Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this. I don't believe you need XML. You should only need to add the columns using a string collection.
using (SPWeb web = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWeb)
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Creating the list");
//web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; //use this in an application page no need in a dll
web.Lists.Add("Customers", "Store informations about my Company Customers", SPListTemplateType.GenericList);
web.Update();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Creating the Fields");
SPList myNewList = web.Lists["Customers"];
myNewList.Fields.Add("First Name", SPFieldType.Text, false);
myNewList.Fields.Add("Last Name", SPFieldType.Text, false);
myNewList.Fields.Add("Adress", SPFieldType.Text, false);
myNewList.Fields.Add("City", SPFieldType.Text, false);
myNewList.Fields.Add("Latest Purchase Date", SPFieldType.DateTime, false);
myNewList.Fields.Add("Sales Comments", SPFieldType.Note, false);
myNewList.Update();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Creating the view");
System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection strColl = new System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection();
strColl.Add("Title");
strColl.Add("First Name");
strColl.Add("Last Name");
strColl.Add("Adress");
strColl.Add("City");
strColl.Add("Latest Purchase Date");
strColl.Add("Sales Comments");
myNewList.Views.Add("Summary", strColl, #"", 100, true, true, Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewCollection.SPViewType.Html, false);
myNewList.Update();
}