Force Check Out the Document library in the Sharepoint 2013 using CSOM

Steps
  • Open Visual Studio in your system

  • Select Console Applciation template and give as name .

  • Add a Microsoft.Cleint Assembly refrence file in right side refrence tab in visual studio.

  • Replace Program.cs with the source code 
  1. using System;  
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;  
  3. using System.Linq;  
  4. using System.Text;  
  5. using System.Threading.Tasks;  
  6. using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;  
  7. namespace CSOMCodeSamples  
  8.    {  
  9.       class Program  
  10.          {  
  11.             static void Main(string[] args)  
  12.             {  
  13.             // ClientContext - Get the context for the SharePoint Site  
  14.   
  15.             ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://gauti.sharepoint.com");  
  16.             // Get the SharePoint web  
  17.             Web web = clientContext.Web;  
  18.             // Get the SharePoint list by title  
  19.             List list = web.Lists.GetByTitle("TestLibrary");  
  20.             // Enable force check out for document library  
  21.             list.ForceCheckout = true;  
  22.   
  23.             list.Update();  
  24.   
  25.             clientContext.ExecuteQuery();  
  26.             }  
  27.          }  
  28.    }  
Hit F5 and check the output.
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