MOSS 2007 exporting documents using C# on XP machine

Question

I looked at forums and some blogs to find out my answer but could not so posting here.

We have MOSS 2007 and a library where we have documents are stored, I would like to run a client utility which runs a day and export all documents imported on that day along with metadata(Column names)

I don't want to install SharePoint server on VHD or on my development environment because I don't think that just for this cause I need to to have Dev SharePoint environment. I don't want to develop this on my development SharePoint environment and give it to my SharePoint team to deploy on server because I feel I should be able to do just on my XP machine.

As SharePoint object model is available, why I cant take missing dll from server and write a small C# utility to export documents to file system? I assume I should be able to do this with SharePoint web service but my question is can I do with SharePoint object model on my XP machine? I don't want to ask my admin to use stsadm to do required work as part of script.

Answer 1

In SharePoint 2007 there is no support for client-side access to the (server) object model. You have to use web services to comply with the requirements you've presented.

Also, it is not possible to take SharePoint DLLs to a client machine without SharePoint installed, and compile—or even run—code with them. It might be possible to achieve compilability, but the process is tedious and makes no sense at all providing it won't ever run on such machine.

Answer 2

You don't need any DLLs from SharePoint 2007 to use web services.

Getting just DLLs be painful for development - you'll be able to compile your code, but to run/debug you still need full installation of SharePoint.

Note that there is special https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/ dedicated to SharePoint questions.