I’m happy to announce that I will be doing a session on SharePoint Connections 2011 in Amsterdam next Wednesday the 23th of November together with my collegae Donald Hessing. We will be doing the same session that we did on the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin last October.

In my series of posts about using Taxonomy Fields in SharePoint 2010 I am using code to do all kinds of stuff with Taxonomy Fields and Terms from code. Because I can´t leave those fascinating Taxonomy Fields for what they are, here is yet another post about this subject  

This is a follow up on my previous posts on this subject:

Using Taxonomy Fields in SharePoint 2010 - Part I

Using Taxonomy Fields in SharePoint 2010 - Part II

Using Taxonomy Fields in SharePoint 2010 - Part III

This post is meant for those of you that have read the previous posts (or attended one of my sessions on Managed Metadata Fields), and want to know more in order to write better code.

To get the Term Store from code I was using the following code in the Using Taxonomy Fields in SharePoint 2010 series of posts:

// set up the field for my termstore

TaxonomySession session = new TaxonomySession(site);

if (session.TermStores.Count > 0)

{

      // get termstore

      TermStore ts = session.TermStores[0];

      // more code here...

}

This is not very robust code and should not be used in a production environment. The code above gets the first (default) Term Store from the Taxonomy Session. But what if there are multiple Term Stores associated with the Web Application? In this post I will show you how to get the Term Store programmatically the right way More...