SharePoint : List Items count and view scopes

We all SharePoint Developers use SP object model . Don't we? What's the difference between. list.Items.Count and list.ItemCount ( list being a SPList object)


Before we answer this Question, Lets see what are different view  scopes present in a list.

View Scope
SPViewScope is a SharePoint enumeration, which has values Default, FilesOnly, Recursive, RecursiveAll.


->Folder 1
         Item 1
         Item 2
->Item 3

Consider a SHAREPOINT list which has items in the above hierarchy.i.e. 'Folder 1' and 'Item 3' directly at the top level and 'Item 1 ,Item 2' inside the 'Folder 1 '.

Now lets set different scopes and check out what items are seen in the view.
Note : The scope can be set to  SPview.Scope or to an SPQuery.Scope

Default

• Folder1
• Item3

 FilesOnly

• Item 3

Recursive

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

RecursiveAll

• Folder 1
• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

Now to get back to our previous question. In this case

• list.Items.Count : 3. Does not include folder, but includes items inside folders
• list.ItemCount   : 4. Includes folders as well as items inside folders.