SharePoint 2013 auto fill people picker, auto fill people editor in application page (aspx) C#

Microsoft always comes with some new and more user friendly features in every new version. Well this client people picker (which is auto fill by user name, email or login id) new and simple control introduced in SharePoint 2013, that will save lot of time of ours.

instead of using below people picker of sharepoint 2010

<SharePoint:PeopleEditor ID="spPeoplePicker" runat="server" Width="350" SelectionSet="User" />

and setting javascript we can use  PeopleEditor to make it easy and faster for end user we can use below control in SP2013

aspx syntax :

<SharePoint:ClientPeoplePicker ValidationEnabled="true" ID="pplDemo" runat="server" VisibleSuggestions="5" AutoFillEnabled="True" AllowEmailAddresses="true" Rows="1" AllowMultipleEntities="false" CssClass="ms-long ms-spellcheck-true" Height="85px"  />

C# Code to get SPUser:

if( pplDemo.ResolvedEntities.Count > 0)
{
SPUser oUser = oWeb.SiteUsers[((PickerEntity)pplDemo.ResolvedEntities[0]).Key];

                         if (oUser != null)
                         {
                              // do your stuff.
                         }
}

C# Code to Set User to Client People Picker control:

 pplDemo.InitialUserAccounts = "UserEmail1";

Thanks,
remaining getting and saving values in SharePoint is same as earlier.

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SharePoint Add People Picker using C or aspx, get SPUser from PeoplePicker, Save User and Read pragramatically from/to SPList / Application Page using C#

Create People Picker at run-time using SharePoint C# code, Programmatically.

Code:

protected void CreatePeoplePicker()  
      {  
        permissionPplPicker = new PeopleEditor();  
        permissionPplPicker.MultiSelect = true;  
        permissionPplPicker.AllowEmpty = false;  
        permissionPplPicker.AutoPostBack = true;  
        permissionPplPicker.PlaceButtonsUnderEntityEditor = true;  
        permissionPplPicker.ID = "PeopleEditor";  
        permissionPplPicker.SelectionSet = "User,SPGroup";  
        permissionPplPicker.Rows = 1;  
        permissionPplPicker.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Outset;  
         //To apply style to people picker or Add SP default css file  
        LiteralControl styleControl = new LiteralControl();  
        styleControl.Text = "<style type='text/css'>.ms-inputuserfield{ font-size:8pt; font-family:Verdana,sans-serif; border:1px solid #a5a5a5;} div.ms-inputuserfield a{color:#000000;text-decoration: none;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;} div.ms-inputuserfield{padding-left:1px;padding-top:2px;}</style> ";  
        this.Controls.Add(styleControl);  
        this.Controls.Add(permissionPplPicker);  
      } 

Create People picker SharePoint Application page .aspx Page ,

Code:

<table style="MARGIN-TOP: 8px" class='ms-formtable' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width="100%">  
                   <tr>  
         <td class='ms-formlabel' valign='top' width='190' nowrap>  
           <h3 class='ms-standardheader'>  
             <nobr>People picker control<span class='ms-formvalidation' title="This is Required filed."> *</span></nobr>  
           </h3>  
         </td>  
         <td class='ms-formbody' valign='top'><span dir='none'>  
           <SharePoint:PeopleEditor ID=" pplPicker " runat="server" AutoPostBack="false" MultiSelect="false" MaximumEntities="1" ValidatorEnabled="true" SelectionSet="User" CssClass="ms-long" Width="99%" EnableViewState="true" />  
           <SharePoint:InputFormRequiredFieldValidator ID="ADValidator" runat="server" Display="Dynamic" SetFocusOnError="true"  
             ControlToValidate="pplPicker" BreakBefore="true" ErrorMessage="You must specify a value for this required field." />  
         </span></td>  
       </tr></table> 

Get SPUser or SharePoint web user from People picker Programmatically C#

Code:

SPUser oUser = null;

if (pplPicker.Entities.Count > 0)
     {
        PickerEntity ppl = (PickerEntity) pplPicker.Entities[0];
        oUser = SPContext.Current.Web.EnsureUser(ppl.DisplayText);
      }

For more than one User we can iterate pplPicker.Entities collection in foreach loop.

Or you can use ResolvedEntities in place of .Entities

Save or update people picker User / SPUser programmatically in/to SharePoint List Item

Code:

using (SPSite oSite = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Site.Url))
    {
      using (SPWeb oWeb = oSite.OpenWeb("//Site Relative Url//", false))
        {
  try
   {
    /*Getting Item by List Item ID and saving User to the list */
    SPListItem user = oWeb.Lists["User List"].GetItemById(Convert.ToInt32(ItemID))

    /* oUsercan be get from people picker by referring above code*/
    user["Team Lead"] = oUser;
    adminWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
    user.Update();
   }
  catch(SPException ex){ }
  finally
  {
   adminWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
   adminWeb.Dispose();
  }
  }
 }

Get SharePoint user / SPUser from SharePoint List using C# / Programmatically

Code:

/* Calling GetSPUserMethod to get User from List*/

SPListItem oItem = oWeb.Lists["User List"].GetItemById(Convert.ToInt32(ItemID));
SPUser oUser = GetSPUser(oItem, "User");
protected SPUser GetSPUser(SPListItem item, string user)
        {
            SPUser oUser = null;
            SPFieldUserValue userValue = new SPFieldUserValue(item.Web, Convert.ToString(item[user]));

            if (userValue != null)
            {
                oUser = userValue.User;
            }
            return oUser;
        }

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Praveen Pandit

MCTS; MCPD

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