SharePoint 2010 Console Application Quirks
So, in order to get the schema XML of some field I've created on my SharePoint 2010 site, I decided to write a quick console application to retrieve the data.I quickly discovered that apparently some things have changed regarding how to use a console application with SP2010. I figured the code would pretty much be the same as it was in 2007:
const string siteUrl = "http://spfoundation/sites/testsite";
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(siteUrl))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
SPList list = web.Lists["Test"];
SPField field = list.Fields["Languages"];
Console.WriteLine(field.SchemaXml);
}
}
Running this code however, quickly resulted in an error:
The Web application at http://spfoundation/sites/testsite could not be found.
Surely I didn't make a typo, as I copied the URL from the browser and it works over there. After some looking around for what to do, I figured out there are a couple of things you need to change:
- You need to run Visual Studio 2010 as an administrator.*
- The target framework of your application needs to be ".NET Framework 3.5"
- Because SP2010 is a 64-bit application, the platform target of your application needs to be 64-bit as well. The setting "Any CPU" seems to be working as well.
(*) I installed SP2010 on a workstation running on Windows 7 Professional, so this requirement may be different for scenarios where your Visual Studio is running on a server with SP2010.
