List item returning weird title

Question

I am using the object model to loop through the items in the built in "Task" list. For some reason when I get the value for the "Title" field for each item it returns values like 1_.000, 2_.000 etc. instead of returning the title that is displayed by the default view.

Do I need to do something special to get the actual title rather than these strange values?

P.S. I checked which columns are being displayed in the default view and there are three versions of Title in there: "Title", "Title (linked to item with edit menu)" and "Title (linked to item) ". I tried using each one but still get the weird values.

Answer 1

Are you using SPListItem.Title?

You might want to just try:

SPListItem item; // get the item from somewhere
string title = item["Title"].ToString();

Answer 2

I just tested this with a OOB Task list and it worked fine with the code below.

public static void TestOneFuncOne()
{
    using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://siteurl"))
    {
        using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
        {
            SPList list = web.Lists["Tasks"];
            SPListItemCollection items = list.Items;
            foreach (SPItem item in items)
            {
                String title = item["Title"].ToString();
            }
        }
    }
}

Have you read about how SharePoint the reference to version URL SPListItemVersion.Url Property?