Steps
  • Open Visual Studio in your system
  • Select Console Applciation template and give as name "updateList"
  • 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 updatelist
  8. {
  9. class Program
  10. {
  11. static void Main(string[] args)
  12. {
  13. // ClientContext - Get the context for the SharePoint Site
  16. ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://gauti.sharepoint.com/sites/sp/");
  17. // Get the SharePoint web
  18. Web web = clientContext.Web;
  19. // Get the SharePoint list by title
  20. List list = web.Lists.GetByTitle("updatedname");
  21. // Update the description for the custom list
  22. list.Description = "update the list using VS2012 & CSOM";
  23. // Update the list
  24. list.Update();
  25. // Retrieve the list properties
  26. clientContext.Load(list);
  27. // Execute the query to the server.
  28. clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
  29. // Display the list title and description
  30. Console.WriteLine("List Title: " + list.Title + "; Description: " + list.Description);
  31. Console.ReadLine();
  32. }
  33. }
  34. }
Hit F5 and see the magix happend in SharePoint 2013. Hope you have enjoyed this.!!! :-)