For a while ago I needed to copy all files from a document library within a SharePoint 2007 site to the hard drive. So I didn’t need to copy files from SharePoint to SharePoint so I couldn’t use the stsadm -o export command or Chris O’Brien’s nice SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. I came across the SPIEFolder application which should work with SharePoint 2007 and 2010. It has a site on codeplex: spiefolder.codeplex.com, but neither the binary nor the source code can be downloaded from there. After some searching I found the binary in the author’s skydrive. The fact that the source code was not available seemed as an disanvantage because I could not know what code was run. Nevertheless I tried it out and it didn’t work:

Jonas Nilsson shows an interesting approach for working with SPSite and SPWeb which must be disposed. Create a helper method WithWeb and send an Action parameter:

public void WithWeb(string uri, Action<SPWeb> action)
{
    using (SPSite site = new SPSite(uri))
    {
        using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
        {
            action(web);
        }
    }
}
```Here is my implementation of this pattern:

public static class DisposalService {     public static void WithWeb(string uri, Action action)     {         using (var site = new SPSite(uri))         {             using (var web = site.OpenWeb())             {                 web.UnsafeUpdate(action);             }         }     }     public  static void WithElevatedWeb(string uri, Action action)     {         SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(() => WithWeb(uri, action));     } }