How to Get all the Nodes from the Top Navigation Bar using CSOM in SharePoint 2013

In this blog you will see how to get all the nodes from the top navigation bar using CSOM in SharePoint 2013.

Namespaces

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

Assemblies

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll;
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.RunTime.dll;

Code Snippet

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

 

namespace CSOMSamples

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //// String Variable to store the siteURL

            string siteURL = "http://c4968397007/";

 

            //// Get the context for the SharePoint Site to access the data

            ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteURL);

            Web web = clientContext.Web;

 

            //// Get the collection of navigation nodes from the top navigation bar

            NavigationNodeCollection topNavigationColl = web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar;

 

            clientContext.Load(topNavigationColl);

            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

 

            //// Display all the node title which is available in the top navigation bar

            foreach (NavigationNode node in topNavigationColl)

            {

                Console.WriteLine(node.Title);

            }

            Console.ReadLine();

        }

    }

}