Welcome to a blog on how to get all permission levels in SharePoint 2013 programmatically using a console application. We will use Visual Studio to get all permission levels in SharePoint 2013 site.

Let’s see how to do it.
  • Open you Visual Studio.
  • Select New Project.

  • Select Console Application.
  • Add the references.
    Microsoft.SharePoint dll and Microsoft.SharePoint.Client dll
  • Paste the code below under Program.cs.
Code
  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;
  3. using System.Linq;
  4. using System.Text;
  5. using System.Threading.Tasks;
  6. using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
  7. namespace Getallpermissionlevels {
  8. class Program {
  9. static void Main(string[] args) {#call the web
  10. ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://devtest.us01.apmn.org/SPTests/");
  11. Web web = clientContext.Web;#get all permission levels
  12. RoleDefinitionCollection roleDef = web.RoleDefinitions;
  13. clientContext.Load(roleDef);#execute the code
  14. clientContext.ExecuteQuery();#loop through all the permission levels
  15. foreach(RoleDefinition roleDefinition in roleDef) {
  16. Console.WriteLine(roleDefinition.Name);
  17. }#Display them here
  18. Console.ReadKey();
  19. }
  20. }
  21. }
  • Run the code and your document library will be created.