How to only display the logged in users list items?

Question

I am creating a Expense management application. I have a page that lists the expenses in the system (they click the expense list to view this).

I now want to change this so that it ONLY displays the logged in users expenses (i don't want user A looking at user B expenses).

I have done this using a web template in visual studio, any modification must be made using visual studio (i cant do this in SP designer as this app will be sent to many clients).

How would i go about approaching this?

Answer 1

You can create a view using SPView class and in query give Author=[Me] and set this view as default view

About the default "All Items" view, set its permission to be viewable to only Administrators or Group with Full Control...

See How to create SPView Programmatically and Programmtically create SPView

Let me know if you need more help!

Answer 2

As Arsalan mentioned you can create a SPView which does filter by Me. Here is the CAML query for doing that:

     query.Query = "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='Author' /><Value Type='Integer'><UserID Type='Integer' /></Value></Eq></Where>";

Here I have written a blog post which shows how to create a an SPView which does filter by Me: http://sharepointnadeem.blogspot.in/2012/02/create-view-to-filter-items-by-me.html