I want to write small function to check whether passed Item Object is checkout in Tridion or not if yes then it will return "true" and also I want to get the details of user who has checkout the Item, using Tridion 2011 core services.
I know we have TryCheckout
as well as Checkout
in our CoreServiceClient
but it returns Identifiable Object only.
You need to look at the LockType on the item. Consider doing something like this
SessionAwareCoreService2010Client client = new SessionAwareCoreService2010Client();
ComponentData data = (ComponentData)client.Read("tcm:300-85609", new ReadOptions());
FullVersionInfo info = (FullVersionInfo)data.VersionInfo;
The full version info contains all the info you need (i.e. CheckOutUser and LockType). LockType is an Enumeration defined by Tridion.ContentManager.Data.ContentManagement.LockType, and includes the following set of flags: