To clarify, the object model method isn’t a big fat dirty liar, but the documentation certainly is. This blog post is about checking permissions of arbitrary users against SharePoint objects which expose the ISecurableObject (this interface is marked obsolete in 2010 in favour of the new SPSecurableObject class) interface using the overloaded DoesUserHavePermissions method of; SPListItem.DoesUserHavePermissions(SPUser […]

Checking user permissions against SharePoint artefacts is straightfordward enough, many types within the object model expose a range of overloaded DoesUserHavePermissions(…) methods, the example below checks that the current user has ViewListItems permissions against a list. This example assumes that you’ve already got a reference to the list to check, SharePoint security trimming means that you may […]