New SharePoint CSOM version released for SharePoint Online - March 2016

We are happy to announce availability of new SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) version targeted for the Office 365 or more specifically for SharePoint Online. This release contains few updates on the existing SharePoint CSOM assemblies and some maintenance changes. You can find the latest CSOM package for SharePoint online, including the Project Online CSOM assembly, from the NuGet gallery with an id of ‘Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM’. We are also working on updating the redistributable package at some point, but you can already right now start using some of these new capabilities in your solutions.

Version of the released CSOM package is 16.1.5026.1200. Previous versions of the NuGet has not been removed, so that your existing solutions will continue working without issues and you can decide when the new version is taken into use. Notice that even though the Nuget version is increased to 16.1.5026.1200, actual assembly version of the released assemblies is 16.1.0.0. You can also check the version of the assemblies from the File Version attribute, which alings with the Nuget version.

Notice. If you like to operate with SharePoint Online rather using PowerShell, also the SharePoint Online Management Shell will be updated at Microsoft download site to match the 16.1.5026.1200 version. Documentation for SharePoint Online Management Shell will be updated accordingly based on the released CmdLets. In this particular release, there were no new CmdLet’s introduced, it’s rather a maintenance release with small adjustments.

New properties and methods cross assemblies

Here’s a raw list of all the new properties and methods in the assemblies. Notice that some of these properties and methods are meant to be used only internally, even though they are exposed in the CSOM API. This means that their usage models might not be completely straight forward and results could be unexpected. Below list contains main changes in the particular assemblies. We have filtered out those elements which are not relevant or change is minimal. MSDN library for the CSOM assemblies will be updated to match the latest version at some point. We’ve included some level of description for some of the mentioned properties where needed.

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client

public class Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.ClientPickerQuery.PickerEntityInformation
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.ClientPickerQuery.PickerEntityInformationRequest
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.AppProperties
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.AppTile – Close to 10 new properties
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Hashtag
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.List.GetListDataAsStream
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListCreationInformation.ListTemplate
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItem.GetHashtags
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ListItem.UpdateHashtags
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ObjectSharingInformation.IsFolder
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ObjectSharingInformation.TotalFileCount
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ObjectSharingInformationUser.IsExternalUser
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ProvisionedMigrationContainersInfo
public class Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ProvisionedMigrationQueueInfo
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.RemoteWeb.GetFileByUrl
pubic property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.RenderListDataParameters.AllowMultipleValueFilterForTaxonomyFields
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.RenderListFilterDataParameters.ExcludeFieldFilteringHtml
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Site.ProvisionMigrationContainers
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Site.ProvisionMigrationQueue
public property Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Visualization.DetailView
public method Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.WebParts.LimitedWebPartManager.ExportWebPart –
Exports the specified Web Part definition to a string.

Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Tenant

public property Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.TenantAdministration.SiteProperties.NewUrl – The new URL for the site (updating this will trigger a site rename). Notice. This is not yet functional in the production when this blog post was written.

Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client

public property Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.StatusTask.CustomFields
public property Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.StatusTask.FieldValues
public property Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.StatusTask.Item
protected method Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.StatusTask.LoadExpandoFields
public method Microsoft.ProjectServer.Client.StatusTask.RefreshLoad