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Delete Top Navigation Link in SharePoint using CSOM

The example in this topic show how to use CSOM to Delete Top Navigation Link in SharePoint

Please follow the steps below to execute the code in Visual Studio using Console Application. You can customize the solution according to your requirements.
Check the article to Connect to SharePoint context using CSOM. This is very helpful if you are doing any programming in CSOM.
Don't forget to use the assemblies as mentioned in the code.

Open your Visual Studio.
From the template, select Console Application as shown in the screenshot
Select the .Net Framework version from the top drop-down as well. You can also change the .Net Framework after creating the solution.
Enter Project Name, Location and Solution Name and click on OK.

using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using System.Linq;
using (ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("http://MyServer/sites/MySiteCollection"))
{
NavigationNodeCollection topNavigationNodes = null;
// Option 1: This will get quick launch collection from parent web
// This option will work only if the method is running from sub - site otherwise parent ID will be Null
clientcontext.Load(clientcontext.Web.ParentWeb, p => p.Id);
clientcontext.ExecuteQuery();
topNavigationNodes = clientcontext.Site.OpenWebById(clientcontext.Web.ParentWeb.Id).Navigation.TopNavigationBar;
// Option 2: This will get quick launch collection from current site
topNavigationNodes = clientcontext.Web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar;
clientcontext.Load(topNavigationNodes);
clientcontext.ExecuteQuery();
NavigationNode node = (from navigationNode in topNavigationNodes where "Node Name" == navigationNode.Title select navigationNode).FirstOrDefault();
// Condition to check the existence of the navigation node.
if (node != null)
{
node.DeleteObject();
clientcontext.ExecuteQuery();
}
}

Thank you for reading this article. This code was tested in SharePoint 2013

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