Check Whether SharePoint Group Exists

[Fao, Sean]

I was wondering if there was any way to programmatically determine
whether or not a group exists in SharePoint. I checked the
SPGroupCollection in the SPWeb.SiteGroups property and didn't see any
methods for doing lookups. I could obviously write my own code that
loops through each group, but I was wondering if there was an
easier/cleaner way to accomplish this task.

Thank you in advance,

 

[Guest]

I was wondering if there was any way to programmatically determine
whether or not a group exists in SharePoint. I checked the
SPGroupCollection in the SPWeb.SiteGroups property and didn't see any
methods for doing lookups. I could obviously write my own code that
loops through each group, but I was wondering if there was an
easier/cleaner way to accomplish this task.

Thank you in advance,

what about loop?

foreach(SPGroup spGroup in spWeb.SiteGroups)
{
....
}

 

[eliza81]

SharePoint Groups vs. SiteGroups

The difference between the two are described below:

SPWeb.Groups will allow you to pull out only the groups which have some / any kind of permissions defined within the site.

SPWeb.SiteGroups will pull out all the cross-site groups irrespective of any permission defined.

So this question is answered accordingly.