Enable Document Library versioning using CSOM

Enable versioning, minor version for SharePoint Document library using CSOM (.Net Managed Code).

Note: So far there is not any property available to set threshold limit for minor/major versions. So its takes default values for both.

//Constant values
private const string userName = "[email protected]";
private const string password = "password";
private const string siteURL = "your site url";
private const string listTitle = "your document library title";


//Code which creates context
 ClientContext context = new ClientContext(siteURL);
 Web web = context.Web;
 SecureString pwd = new SecureString();
 foreach (char c in password.ToCharArray()) pwd.AppendChar(c);
 context.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, pwd);
 context.Load(web);
 context.ExecuteQuery();

 // code enables versioning
 List list = context.Web.Lists.GetByTitle(listTitle);
 context.Load(list, l => l.EnableVersioning, l => l.EnableMinorVersions);
 context.ExecuteQuery();
 list.EnableVersioning = true;

 if (list.EnableVersioning)
 {
   list.EnableMinorVersions = true;
 }

 list.Update();
 context.ExecuteQuery();
 Console.WriteLine("Updated.\n");