Getting Metadata from the Microsoft SharePoint Server using SharePoint Shared Resource Connection

Prerequisites

Ensure that the design-time credentials are provided in the SharePoint Connection shared resource when getting the metadata. Before getting the metadata from the Microsoft SharePoint server, you have to create a SharePoint connection. See Creating a SharePoint Connection.

See SharePoint Get Metadata Tool for more details about the description for each field.

SharePoint Shared Resource Connection uses SOAP calls to download metadata form the Microsoft SharePoint server.

Procedure

  1. Right-click the root directory of the created project, and then click SharePoint Tools > Get Metadata.

    The Get Metadata window is displayed.

  2. Click Browse in the Get Metadata window, and select a SharePoint connection in the Select SharePoint Connection window. Click OK.
  3. Click Get Web to get available websites.
  4. Click Get Metadata to get metadata from the Microsoft SharePoint server.
  5. Click Close to exit the Get Metadata tool.