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As you have SharePoint installed on the development machine (you must), hit Browse… on the Add reference dialog, and you can find the DLL from C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\14\ISAPI .
What is SharePoint dll?
Showing the top 1 NuGet packages that depend on Microsoft.SharePoint.dll: Package. Downloads. Kraken.SPSandboxLibrary. Kraken is a battle tested library for developing SharePoint applications that’s been around since before 2010 and is used in many projects.
Right-click the project in Solution Explorer, click Add Reference, and in the Add Reference dialog box, click the Browse tab and navigate to the folder where you copied Microsoft. SharePoint. Client. dll and Microsoft.
Where to find Assembly microsoft.sharepoint.dll?
As you have SharePoint installed on the development machine (you must), hit Browse… on the Add reference dialog, and you can find the DLL from C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\microsoft shared\\Web Server Extensions\\14\\ISAPI.
Only a subset of the APIs in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll are available in sandboxed solutions. However, those APIs that are available run in a special, fully trusted process and therefore are not subject to the restrictions of the sandboxed worker process.
Can a sharepoint.dll be called in a sandbox?
Certain methods in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll can be called in sandboxed solutions only if the calling code conforms to certain restrictions on the values of the passed parameters. Also, certain properties in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll are read/write in farm solutions but read-only in sandboxed solutions.
The tutorial doesn’t explain how to add the reference. I clicked Add Reference, there is no Microsoft.SharePoint.dll option. So I checked NuGet Packages, it finds Microsoft.SharePoint.dll, but when I click install, it gives an error message saying: Could not install package ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.dll 15.0.4867.1000’.