getting hold of a list from parent web

Question

Just want to make sure that the following syntax will work. The look-up list is on the parent list.

SPList lookupList = web.ParentWeb.GetList("States");

Answer 1

The syntax looks fine, of course there are a lot of assumptions here:

• you are not already at the top-level web
• the list exists on the parent
• the current user has permissions to the list on the parent web

If you are fine with all those assumptions, it looks right.