How to set Custom View as Default View for SharePoint List?

Question

I Have Created 2 Views for a List. Now I want to set Different views as the default view on different Logins.

I want to do this using c# code

For Example:

Views are as Following:

1. AllItems
2. UserView

Then

If Admin Logs in then List's Default View is AllItems

If User Logs in then List's Default View is UserView

How Can I do this using C# code?

Code Snippet:

                    SPUser LoggedInUser = web.CurrentUser;

                    SPList CurrentList = web.Lists[ListName];

                    if (LoggedInUser.LoginName == LoginUser)
                    {
                        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                        CurrentList.Views[AllItems].DefaultView = false;
                        CurrentList.Views[UserView].DefaultView = true;
                        CurrentList.Update();              // Error here
                        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;

                    }
                    else if (LoggedInUser.LoginName == LoginAdmin)
                    {
                        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                        CurrentList.Views[AllItems].DefaultView = true;
                        CurrentList.Views[UserView].DefaultView = false;
                        CurrentList.Update();               // Error here
                        web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
                    }

Above Code is giving this error:

Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack.

Answer 1

I think the problem here is you're retrieving the view from an indexer. Try something like this for each view:

SPView allItemView = CurrentList.Views[AllItems];
allItemView.DefaultView = false;
allItemView.Update();
CurrentList.Update();

Additionally - this is database-heavy in terms of what you want to do (lots of read/writes just to set a default view depending on the user's group), I can't think at the minute of a better way of doing this but if there is, then try and find a way that limits the amount of data you need to get to/from the database. Think what impact this will have many when users are accessing the page at once.