Get all the site groups in SharePoint 2010 using Client Object Model

 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

 

namespace COM

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            // siteURL is the string that contains the site URL

            string siteUrl = "http://serverName:50000/sites/Testing";  

            // ClientContext object is used to get the context for the SharePoint objects

            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);

            Web web = clientContext.Web;

            GroupCollection groupColl = web.SiteGroups;

            clientContext.Load(groupColl,

                groups=>groups.Include(

                group=>group.Title,

                group=>group.Id));

            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

            foreach (Group siteGroup in groupColl)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(siteGroup.Title + "-------" + siteGroup.Id);               

            }

            Console.ReadLine();

        }

    }

}