How do i...how can we handle threshold limit of sharepoint?

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SharePoint is configured with a default threshold limit of 5000 items in a list or library. This means that if the items in a list or library exceed that number, any views, grouping and queries will fail, So there is any work-around/solution to handle this issue of SharePoint by API? and Why SharePoint set such a rule?

What I have tried:

C#

spContext.Credentials =
                  new SharePointOnlineCredentials(
                      ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[ConfigurationConstants.SharePointUserName],
                      SharePointHelper.GetSecureString());

              // Add our User Agent information
              spContext.ExecutingWebRequest += delegate (object sender, WebRequestEventArgs e)
              {
                  e.WebRequestExecutor.WebRequest.UserAgent = "NONISV|Contoso|GovernanceCheck/1.0";
              };

Posted 22-Jun-18 3:47am

Abhimanyu U Singh

Updated 23-Oct-18 8:39am

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Bartje_ · Answer 1 · 2018-10-23T08:40:00

The solution you have implemented is to avoid request throttling. Your solution will (theoretically) allow you to make more requests in the same amount of time.

I think what you are looking is a way to overcome the 5000 item limit when querying a list or library. The following link has a complete sample and also contains a SharePoint Online compatible version of the ContentIterator, which is specially made to handle large amounts of list items:
PnP/Samples/Core.ListViewThreshold at master · SharePoint/PnP · GitHub[^]