Programmatically create a task item and assign to a user in SharePoint 2010

In this blog you will see how to create a task item and assign to a user in SharePoint 2010 using SharePoint object model.

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint;   namespace Console {     class Program     {         static void Main(string[] args)         {             using (SPSite site = new SPSite("https://serverName/sites/TEST"))             {                 using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())                 {                     SPList list = web.Lists.TryGetList("Tasks");                     if (list != null)                     {                         // get the SharePoint group                         SPUser user = web.EnsureUser(@"domainName\userName");                           // Create a new task item                         SPListItem task = list.Items.Add();                         SPFieldUserValue assignToGroup = new SPFieldUserValue(web, user.ID, user.Name);                         task["AssignedTo"] = assignToGroup;                         task["Title"] = "Testing";                         task["Description"] = "Testing";                                               task.Update();                     }                 }             }         }     } }