I’ve been looking into a way to have a search web part interface with an OOB ListView web part.  I’ve been using SPContext.Current.Web.GetLimitedWebPartManager(), and grabbing the local web part with a PersonalizationScope.User.  I am placing the web part on the View’s aspx page, Search.aspx.  I am claiming the web part and casting it into a ListViewWebPart.  The ListViewWebPart has an attribute listviewxml and viewguid.  I’ve tried changing both of these and saving the changes using SPLimitedWebPartManager.SaveChanges() method.  I have successfully changed the title of the web part in a personalized view, but the view never changes.   Also I’ve successfully changed a Shared View, but this would only allow one person in at a time…  I’m looking to either present a dynamic in memory view to the personalized web part or create a personalized view that I can assign a personalized web part to.  

On a side note, I’ve worked with the SPGridView control, but trying to get the default context menu’s involved a lot of convoluted javascript in which the AJAX Update Panel caused the script issues.  If anyone has found a cleaner more dependable solution for this, please let me know.

                    taxDocuments.ParentWeb.Site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                    taxDocuments.ParentWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
                    SPLimitedWebPartManager currentWebPartCollection = SPContext.Current.Web.GetLimitedWebPartManager("/Tax%20Documents/Forms/search.aspx", PersonalizationScope.User);
                    ListViewWebPart viewwebpart = (ListViewWebPart)currentWebPartCollection.WebParts[0];
                    SPView newView = taxDocuments.Views["TheSearch"].Clone("MySearch", 99999, false, false); ;
                    newView.Title = "MySearch";
                    //newView.PersonalView = true; //read only property
                    newView.Query = BuildTaxDocCamlQuery();
                    newView.Update();
                    viewwebpart.ViewGuid = newView.ID.ToString();
                    viewwebpart.ListViewXml = newView.SchemaXml;
                    viewwebpart.Title = "steve4";
                    currentWebPartCollection.SaveChanges(viewwebpart);
                    SPContext.Current.Web.Update();
                    taxDocuments.ParentWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
                    taxDocuments.ParentWeb.Site.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;