How To Create A Discussion Board In SharePoint 2013 Programmatically

Welcome to a blog on how to create a discussion board in SharePoint 2013 programmatically using a console application. We will use Visual Studio to create Discussion Board in SharePoint 2013 site.

 

Let’s see how to do it.

• Open you Visual Studio
• Select New Project
  
  

• Select Console Application.
• Add the references
  Microsoft.SharePoint dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client dll
• Paste the code below under Program.cs.

Code 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
#Get the web here
ClientContext context = new ClientContext("Your site url here");
Web web = context.Web;
ListCreationInformation disBoard = new ListCreationInformation();
#Provide a name and description to your Discussion board.
disBoard.Title = "My Discussion Board";
disBoard.Description = "My Discussion Board";
disBoard.TemplateType = (int)ListTemplateType.DiscussionBoard;
web.Lists.Add(disBoard);
#Execute the code
context.ExecuteQuery();
Console.WriteLine("Discussion Board Created");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}

• Run the code and your Discussion Board will be created.

 

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