Get all the Term Stores for the provided site using Client Side Object Model in SharePoint 2013

In this blog you will see how to get all the term stores for the provided site using Client Side Object Model in SharePoint 2013.

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) which has the following term store

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).
   
   1. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll
   2. Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll
   3. 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;

 

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);

 

            // Retrieve all the term stores (Name property alone)

            clientContext.Load(

                taxonomySession.TermStores,

                termStores => termStores.Include

                    (termStore=>termStore.Name)

                    );

 

            //Execute the query to the server

            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

 

            // Check if the TaxonomySession is not null

            if (taxonomySession != null)

            {

                // Loop through all the term stores for the taxonomy session

                foreach (TermStore termStore in taxonomySession.TermStores)

                {

                    // Print the termstore name

                    Console.WriteLine(termStore.Name);

                }

                Console.ReadLine();

            }

        }

    }

}

MMS will be the output.

[Note: Site Collection http://c4968397007/ is associated with MMS service application].