How To Get All Permission Levels In SharePoint 2013 Programmatically

Welcome to a blog on how to get all permission levels in SharePoint 2013 programmatically using a console application. We will use Visual Studio to get all permission levels 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.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
namespace Getallpermissionlevels {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {#call the web
            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://devtest.us01.apmn.org/SPTests/");
            Web web = clientContext.Web;#get all permission levels
            RoleDefinitionCollection roleDef = web.RoleDefinitions;
            clientContext.Load(roleDef);#execute the code
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();#loop through all the permission levels
            foreach(RoleDefinition roleDefinition in roleDef) {
                Console.WriteLine(roleDefinition.Name);
            }#Display them here
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

• Run the code and your document library will be created.