There are times when you just need to get a reference to a folder in the master page gallery of a site collection using CSOM, and that’s where I found myself the other day. I had a SharePoint context, so I attempted to get my folder using:<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, instead of getting back a folder after executing my context, I got back an error<\/p>\n Value does not fall within the expected range.<\/strong><\/p>\n Awesome. I happened to remembered that my SharePoint context was pointing to a subsite and not the root web of the site collection, and after prodding around a bit I confirmed that when you call Web<\/a>.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl<\/a>, the URL you pass to the method must be a child of the URL in the context. In other words, you can’t get a folder reference that exists in a parent site, you have to get a folder that is a child of the Web<\/a> instance. Since I needed to get something in the root web of the site collection the fix was fairly easy:<\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\nvar folder = clientContext.Web<\/strong>.GetFolderByServerRelativeUrl(
\"\/_catalogs\/masterpage\/SomeFolder\")<\/code><\/p>\n <\/code> <\/p>\n