C# - How to satisfy Sharepoint References - Guidance

Question

e.g. satisfy these references

using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.Office.DocumentManagement.DocumentSets;

from

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.documentmanagement.documentsets.documentset.create.aspx

I have found references to sharepoint.dll which means that this code must be only possible on the server ?

So does this mean this code would not work client side ?

=> So as someone wanting to do thing client side (e.g. grab documents) how do you know what MSDN pages apply to you and not server side as there doesn't seem to be a consistent flagging of this within MSDN ?

Thanks

Answer 1

What exactly do you mean by client side? 

Are you wanting to create a client application? (e.g. Console, Forms, etc)

Answer 2

Client side means code running not on the server. The server being sharepoint 2010.

If a assembly needs a "sharepoint.dll" reference, then this will not be available outside the server.

In this case it is a Windows Form App that is NOT displaying web parts, buts needs to keep track of file changes in a dicument set and extract the files locally.

Thanks

Answer 3

microsoft.sharepoint.dll works only on server side.

Some functionality for client side can give you microsoft.sharepoint.client.dll.

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Answer 4

Thanks

If you or Margriet could give me some pointers to the context of satisfying microsoft.sharepoint.client.dll we can conclude this post ?

I found no way to reference microsoft.sharepoint.client.dll

Is this a SDK thing and once built your app you  need to install the SDK on clients using the app ?

Greg

Answer 5

What king of application do you develop? And what is your task?

If it Windows Form you can just copy microsoft.sharepoint.client dll to your project and use it remotely from SharePoint Server (on client).

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Answer 6

Hi

I am [hoping to] checking for changes to a document set (happy to poll) and then wanting to grab a fresh copy. This is being done on a PC other than the server.

See http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010programming/thread/ef13500c-8738-4318-91fb-2d04a4582558

Thanks