Determine Publishing Page check-in/publish status programmatically

Question

Is there a way to determine the check-in/publish status of a Publishing Page programmatically?

For example to determine

• whether the page is checked out (and to whom),
• whether the page has a published version,

etc.

Answer 1

Check the Level property of the SPFile object. It's a SPFileLevel enumeration with these possible values:Published, Draft, Checkout