How to remove System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.Part

Question

I am trying to remove some WebParts from a page in my site collection. Normally I can do this with SPLimitedWebPartManager.DeleteWebPart(webPart) however, that will not delete System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.Part nor can I cast it to a WebPart object (it returns null).

Currently I am just setting visible attribute to false, but ideally I would like to delete it.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You should be able to get the WebPart object by indexer of the WebParts collection, and then pass it to DeleteWebPart method without any additional casting.

For example:

manager.DeleteWebPart(manager.WebParts[7]);

The indexer returns strongly-typed System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart object, at least as it goes from the MSDN documentation, so this should work (however, didn't test it myself).