Get all the termsets for the taxonomy group using Client Side Object Model in SharePoint 2013

Vijai Anand Ramalingam
Jan 22, 2013
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Navigate to the Central Administration. Click on Application Management. Click on Manage service applications which is available under Service Applications. Click on MMS (Managed Metadata Service). Expand MMS termstore in the Taxonomy Term Store where all the groups for that particular termstore will be displayed. I have a group called “SP2013” which has the following term sets

Ø Apps

Ø BCS

Ø MMS

Ø WAS

In this blog you will see how to get all the term sets for a particular group using Client Object Model.

Steps Involved:

1. Open Visual Studio 2012 (Run as administrator).

2. Go to File=> New => Project.

3. Select Console Application in the Visual C# node from the installed templates.

4. Enter the Name and click on Ok.

5. In the solution explorer, right click on References folder and then click on Add Reference.

6. Add the following assemblies from 15 hive (C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI).

a. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll

b. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll

c. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.dll

7. Open Program.cs file and replace the code with the following

 using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
 
namespace ManagedMetadataClient
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // ClienContext - Get the context for the SharePoint Site 
            // SharePoint site URL - http://c4968397007/
            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://c4968397007/");
 
            // Get the TaxonomySession
            TaxonomySession taxonomySession = TaxonomySession.GetTaxonomySession(clientContext);
 
            // Get the term store by name
            TermStore termStore = taxonomySession.TermStores.GetByName("MMS");
 
            // Group GUID
            Guid guid = new Guid("0a5e3a3a-884f-4feb-bd2a-49735f3fb6e6");
 
            // Get the term group using GUID
            TermGroup termGroup = termStore.GetGroup(guid);
 
            // Get all the term sets
            TermSetCollection termSetColl = termGroup.TermSets;
 
            clientContext.Load(termSetColl);
 
            // Execute the query to the server
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
 
            // Loop through all the termsets
            foreach (TermSet termSet in termSetColl)
            {
                // Display the term set name
                Console.WriteLine(termSet.Name);
            }
 
            Console.ReadLine();
 
        }    }}