Accessing Sharepoint lists from a Standalone Application

I have a Standalone application, which needs to access a Sharepoint list. I bumped into a few articles, mentioning Web Service is the way to go about it.

But I am unable to find a step by step path to write a web service to fetch list from sharepoint. In addition to this, the application can take a WSDL 开发者_运维问答file as an input.

Please let me know how to proceed about this scenario.

If you are using SharePoint 2007, then web services is the only way to do this. Here is a list of the different web services available.

If you are using SharePoint 2010 you can use the client object model.

You can simply use the SharePoint webservice Lists.asmx (both in SharePoint 2007 and 2010)

1. In your application, add a web reference 'http://(sharepoint-url)/_vti_bin/lists.asmx'
2. Once done, you can use the method GetList.

For more information, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists.getlist(v=office.12).aspx#Y82