What is the easiest way to list all Component templates in a publication? [closed]

Question

I want a list of all component templates, with some of the metadata. What is the easiest way to accomplish that? The Core API?

edit 1, typo. I meant to ask about templates

edit 2, Sorry about that. I'm working with a DD4T site. What I'm after is a list of CT's, along with the view they have been pointed to via metadata. If possible, I thought it would be useful if I could automatically determine if 1) does every DD4T CT actually have a view in our site? and 2) are there any views that don't have a corresponding CT? For now however, I'd be happy with a list of CT's and corresponding views.

Answer 1

I do this:

    private void GetTemplates(SessionAwareCoreServiceClient coreService, IdentifiableObjectData publication)
    {
        RepositoryItemsFilterData templateFilter = GetTemplateFilter(publication);
        XElement templates = coreService.GetListXml(publication.Id, templateFilter);

        foreach (XElement template in templates.Descendants())
        {

            IdentifiableObjectData t = coreService.Read(template.AttributeValueOrEmpty("ID"), null);
        }
    }

    private RepositoryItemsFilterData GetTemplateFilter(IdentifiableObjectData publication)
    {
        RepositoryItemsFilterData templateFilter = new RepositoryItemsFilterData();
        List<ItemType> types = new List<ItemType>();
        types.Add(ItemType.ComponentTemplate);
        templateFilter.Recursive = true;
        templateFilter.BaseColumns = ListBaseColumns.Extended;
        templateFilter.ItemTypes = types.ToArray();
        return templateFilter;
    }

It works well over slow lines and large datasets.

Answer 2

Depending on your needs; if you just need a list, count etc, you could use the inbuilt SDL Tridion search functionality to achieve this.

See screenshot below: