SharePoint 2010: Creating Term store, term groups, terms programatically using CSV
With SharePoint 2010 Metadata Managment Services, come few frequently used terminologies such as Termstore, Termgroup, Termset and Terms which normally you create them all in this manner. Now without going into the detail of this jargon (because a lot has been written already) and touching the implementational aspect of it, the easiest way of creating a term store consitituing of respective terms, is by importing a CSV file. Wictor Wilen gives a very interesting account of how to create a CSV that can easily be imported to the Metadata management service. Not only that but he also hosts a Macros Enabled Excel Sheet which generates the right CSV upon entering the right data. Technically in SharePoint, whatever is doable using out of the box SharePoint features, can be achieved programatically using custom solution. Following this principlem what I'm trying to achieve is to do the same thing programatically that we do out of the box i,e Creating a TermStore and a ...