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Is it possible to Enumerate through Site Collections using only the Sharepoint Client Object Model?

I have approximately 15 thousand site collections and I would like to return a list of all of these site collections using only the Sharepoint Client Object Model. I'm wanting to create a listview or dropdown list to display these site collections. I'm using c# to accomplish this task.

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Brian

fabianbaptista

Using dropdown is not a good idea to show 15.000 elements.

to retrieve the site list, see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee538971.aspx

regards

brian_leighty

ASKER

Having a problem getting the first Include for the list collection.

Intellisense:
'Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListCollection' does not contain a definition for 'Include' and no extension method 'Include' accepting a first argument of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListCollection' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

listInfo = clientContext.LoadQuery(
collList.Include( <---------------------This include
list=>list.Title,
list=>list.Fields.Include(
field=>field.Title).Where(
field=>field.Required == true
&& field.Hidden != true)));

Does this being a Silverlight control and not a winapp effect this?

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Daryl Sirota

What's wrong with calling stsadm.exe -o enumsites -url <the root http url> ?

brian_leighty

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I'm building a Office add-in based off of some Windows Forms in c#.

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brian_leighty

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I actually just used the dropdown as a concept of what I'm trying to architect. If I used a list or dropdown it woul dbe lazyloaded or autocompleted from a search. This is for a document management system purely fo rredirection of users to site collections. I also have to use the Client Object Model to create this list. Any thoughts....