Navigate to the Central Administration. Click on Application Management.
Click on Manage service applications which is available under Service
Applications. Select Managed Metadata Service Connection and click on Properties
in the ribbon interface.
This is used as a default site collection term store. In this blog you will see
how to get this value using client side object model.
Steps Involved:
- Open Visual Studio 2012 (Run as administrator).
- Go to File=> New => Project.
- Select Console Application in the Visual C# node from the installed
templates.
- Enter the Name and click on OK.
- In the solution explorer, right click on References folder and then
click on Add Reference.
- Add the following assemblies from 15 hive (C:\Program
Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\ISAPI).
- Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
- Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
- Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Taxonomy.dll
- 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;
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 default site collection term store
TermStore termStore =
taxonomySession.GetDefaultSiteCollectionTermStore();
//
Retrieve default site collection term store
clientContext.Load(termStore);
//Execute
the query to the server
clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
Console.WriteLine(termStore.Name.ToString());
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
MMS will be the output.
[Note: Site Collection http://c4968397007/ is associated with MMS service
application].