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. using System.IO;
  9. namespace CSOMCodeSamples
  10. {
  11. class Program
  12. {
  13. static void Main(string[] args)
  14. {
  16. // ClientContext - Get the context for the SharePoint Site
  18. ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://gauti.sharepoint.com/sites/CSOM/");
  19. // Get the SharePoint web
  20. Web web = clientContext.Web;
  22. // Get all the site groups
  23. GroupCollection groupColl = web.SiteGroups;
  25. // Create a new site group
  26. GroupCreationInformation creationInfo = new GroupCreationInformation();
  27. creationInfo.Title = "gautiGroup";
  28. creationInfo.Description = "Custom group created using CSOM";
  29. Group newGroup = groupColl.Add(creationInfo);
  30. clientContext.Load(newGroup);
  31. // Execute the query to the server
  32. clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
  33. // Display the newly created group name
  34. Console.WriteLine(newGroup.Title + " is created successfully");
  35. Console.ReadLine();
  36. }
  37. }
  38. }
Hit f5 and check the out put in SharePoint group created successfully.