I was asked today how to change the order of the fields programmatically in the SharePoint view (SPView<\/a>). Since there is no \u201cposition\u201d or \u201corder\u201d property, and since the \u201cViewFields<\/a>\u201d property returns a \u201cSPViewFieldCollection<\/a>\u201d, which is not much more than a StringCollection<\/a>, it\u2019s not that straight-forward.<\/p>\n The easiest way is to accomplish this is to empty the ViewFields property of the current View, sort the fields as you would like to have it, and add it again, one by one, to the ViewFields.<\/p>\n The following code snippet moves the field \u201cTest\u201d to the first position in all the Views except the \u201cExplorer View\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\/\/iterate all the views\nint viewsCount = yourLibrary.Views.Count;\nfor (int i = 0; i < viewsCount; i++ )\n{\nSPView view = yourLibrary.Views[i];\n\nif (view.Title != "Explorer View")\n{\n\nStringCollection oldFields =\nview.ViewFields.ToStringCollection();\n\n\/\/clear all fields\nview.ViewFields.DeleteAll();\n\n\/\/add wanted field\nview.ViewFields.Add(yourLibrary.Fields["test"]);\n\n\/\/add orher fields\nforeach (string fieldName in oldFields)\n{\nif (fieldName != "test")\n{\nif (yourLibrary.Fields.ContainsField(fieldName))\nview.ViewFields.Add(fieldName);\n}\n\n}\n\nview.Update();\n\nyourLibrary.Update();\n}\n}\n<\/pre>\n