SPGroup.AddUser method (SPUser)

Adds the specified user to the group.

Namespace:  Microsoft.SharePoint
Assembly:  Microsoft.SharePoint (in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub AddUser ( _
    user As SPUser _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As SPGroup
Dim user As SPUser

instance.AddUser(user)

public void AddUser(
    SPUser user
)

Parameters

• user
  Type: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPUser

  The user to be added to the group.

Remarks

This method calls AddUser(String, String, String, String) method with the values of the LoginName, Email, Name, and Notes properties of user to add the user to the group.

Examples

The following code example adds all the users of a subsite to a group in the site collection.

Dim webSite As SPWeb = SPContext.Current.Site.AllWebs("Web_Site_Name")
Try            
    Dim group As SPGroup = webSite.SiteGroups("Group_Name")
    Dim users As SPUserCollection = webSite.Users
            
    Dim user As SPUser
    For Each user In users
        group.AddUser(user)
    Next user
Finally
    webSite.Dispose()
End Try

using (SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Site.AllWebs["Web_Site_Name"])
{
    SPGroup oGroup = oWebsite.SiteGroups["Group_Name"];
    SPUserCollection collUsers = oWebsite.Users;

    foreach (SPUser oUser in collUsers)
    {
oGroup.AddUser(oUser);
    }
}

See also

Reference

SPGroup class

SPGroup members

AddUser overload

Microsoft.SharePoint namespace