Friday, October 11, 2013

CSOM API overcomplete on MSDN

The SharePoint product team faces a daunting task in keeping the MSDN library on SharePoint API's up to date. Especially now we have the Server Side Object Model, Client Side Object Model and the JavaScript Object Model. Although the documentation for these API's may be sparse at points, it at least tries to cover the entire object model, which is a good thing. Next to that there is also the REST API, which is so badly documented that complex solutions become nearly impossible.

Recently I found some weird things in the CSOM documentation. There are some methods in the API which do not exist in reality. I've checked this against the client dll's that came with my SharePoint install, and against the latest version of the Client SDK.

Are these methods yet to come? Or have they been scrapped somewhere in the development process? If you know more, post below :)

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