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When you get an SPListItemCollection from a SPList.GetItems(SPQuery) request, and the items have SPFieldUser or SPFieldLookup fields, what is the sexy way to get typed values, not the item["Field"].ToString().Split('#')[1] way, please?

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new SPFieldLookupValue(item["FieldName"] as String).LookupValue

you probably want to check if item["FieldName"] is not null or empty before doing this.

SPFieldUserValue works similarly, but you need to pass in an SPWeb into the constructor, which you can retrieve from your SPListItem using SPListItem.ParentList.ParentWeb

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  • or .ToString() and yes check for null always
    – Anders Rask
    Feb 6, 2010 at 10:29
  • Cool, at least this way we are protected from cases when hash/pound-sign(#) appears in the value. Thanks.
    – Alexey Krasheninnikov
    Feb 7, 2010 at 20:19
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    cool - just googled for this question and stumbled upon my own answer :)
    – Jaap Vossers
    Aug 12, 2010 at 11:43
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    I wrote an article about the whole get/set Lookup/User field method, which may be useful: tsstsst.com/easily-accessing-lookup-and-user-fields
    – Stu Pegg
    Jul 26, 2012 at 11:38
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    for CSOM, use FieldLookupValue from Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.
    – YHTAN
    Jul 25, 2017 at 7:09

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