What is CSOM? What can it do for SharePoint developers and IT professionals? Most of the SharePoint developers use CSOM in the code and all are familiar with .NET. So, in this topic we would like to share CSOM and its importance. CSOM includes JavaScript object model (JSOM). Developers think a lot before consuming REST, CSOM, and web services for either developing or helping IT Professionals in automation tasks. Each has its own pros and cons. It depends on when and how we use it. So, let us ignore REST and web service for now, and focus on CSOM, because this works based on the .NET Client-side object model of the SharePoint platform.
CSOM is an acronym for Client-side object model
CSOM provides a subset of the Server Object Model
CSOM supports remote execution via JavaScript and .NET
CSOM allows Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) query to query SharePoint lists
CSOM has three distinct API, these are:
.NET managed client object.
This has...