In this post, we’ll see how to get the list of the SharePoint List in SharePoint 2013 Online using CSOM.

Open Visual Studio 2013.

File –> New –> Project –> Visual C# –> Console Application  and name it as ‘ReadSharePointLists’

Add a reference to assemblies ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Client’ and ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime’.

Import the following two namespaces.

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using System.Security;

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Copy and paste the following snippet of the code that will help us to fetch the list of SharePoint lists in the SharePoint Online site.

namespace ReadSharePointLists
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Replace it with the url of your tenant or your site-collection
            string SiteUrl = "https://yoursite.sharepoint.com";

            System.Uri oUri = new System.Uri(SiteUrl);

            using (ClientContext oClientContext = new ClientContext(SiteUrl))
            {
                //Replace it with your user id for SharePoint Online
                string UserName = "userid@yoursite.onmicrosoft.com";


                //Replace it with your password
                string Password = "password";

                //Create a SecureString object from password string, needed for SharePointOnlineCredentials class
                SecureString SecurePassword = GetSecureString(Password);
                oClientContext.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(UserName, SecurePassword);

                //load the properties of web object
                Web oWeb = oClientContext.Web;
                
                //Get all the lists in the web
                oClientContext.Load(oWeb.Lists);
                oClientContext.ExecuteQuery();


                foreach (List oList in oWeb.Lists)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(oList.Title.ToString());
                
                }
                Console.ReadLine();


            
            }

        }

        private static SecureString GetSecureString(String Password)
        {
            SecureString oSecurePassword = new SecureString();

            foreach (Char c in Password.ToCharArray())
            {
                oSecurePassword.AppendChar(c);

            }
            return oSecurePassword;
        }

    }
}

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After executing this we’ll see the below result, which displays the names of the SharePoint lists in the SharePoint 2013 Online site.

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