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:

Open Visual Studio 2012 (Run as administrator).
Go to File=> New => Project.
Select Console Application in the Visual C# node from the installed templates.
Enter the Name and click on OK.
In the solution explorer, right click on References folder and then click on Add Reference.
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
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].