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I want to create a web part to place on a document set web part. How would I get the context of the document set and the documents within the set from within the web part?

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The url for the document set welcome page includes an ID in the query string, so you can use this parameter to find the document set:

http://server/MyDocumentLibrary/Forms/MyDocumentSet/docsethomepage.aspx?ID=2

var id = Convert.ToInt32(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["ID"]);
SPListItem item = SPContext.Current.Web.Lists["MyDocumentLibrary"].GetItemById(id);
var dsItem = Microsoft.Office.DocumentManagement.DocumentSets.DocumentSet.GetDocumentSet(item.Folder);

NOTE: You will need to add a reference to Microsoft.Office.DocumentManagement

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Do you know how I can determine the library name knowing only the id of the item? i.e. id – David Jun 9 '11 at 19:44
In addition to the ID parameter, the welcome page also includes these query string parameters: FolderCTID (the content type), List (the List ID). So you can get the listId = ...QueryString["List"] and then: SPContext.Current.Web.Lists[new Guid(listId)] – Laurie Jun 9 '11 at 20:22
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/customize-the-welcome-page-for-a-document-set-HA101782474.aspx says "The Document Set Welcome page is a Web Part page that can be edited just as you would edit any Web Part page". Any further questions?

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I understand that the welcome page is a web part page. This doesn't answer the question. If I put a web part on the welcome page (custom web part), programmatically how do I get a context to the current document set within the web part. I want to perform operations on the documents within the current document set and to do this i need to get some sort handle the current set. thx – David Jun 5 '11 at 11:15
This wasn't quite clear from how you formulated the question. Please edit the question to make it more specific. The question title is "how to add a webpart" while in the body you ask another question "how to get the context of the displayed document set". – Alexey Krasheninnikov Jun 6 '11 at 9:11

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