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I've got a webpart which reads several values from a list, while developing local I've got a column "Due Date", but when I upload my webpart to SharePoint online (Office 365) we have a German version and the column is called "Fälligkeitsdatum" so my code doesn't work (without changing the columnname in the source everytime).

How can I read the column independent from language? Is this possible with guid?

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Use SPField.InternalName.

You can see what the Internal Name in several ways, such as in List Settings, or in AllItems (url when sorting by a field).

Internal Name of "Due Date" in Tasks list is DueDate.

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Yes you should use the GUID

The GUID of a lot of the BuiltIn Fields are abailable in SPBuiltInFieldId regarding Due Date use SPBuiltInFieldId.DueDate

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Could you provide a sample? I can't get it to work: Invalid field name. {c1e86ea6-7603-493c-ab5d-db4bbfe8f96a} – Aljoscha Husp Sep 28 '12 at 12:41
Sounds like you are passing in a GUID as a string and not as a GUID object. You can convert a string to a GUID using Guid fieldId = new Guid(guidAsString); – ToddersLegrande Sep 28 '12 at 12:47
Unfortunatly not :-( SPBuiltInFieldId.DueDate is already a Guid. – Aljoscha Husp Sep 28 '12 at 12:55
Ohhhh sorry the mistake was that I used DueDate, but as I'm using a tasklist I needed to use TaskDueDate. Your code works perfect thanks :-) – Aljoscha Husp Sep 28 '12 at 13:10

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