Get Aggregate Value of a SharePoint Field using CSOM [Totals function]

This post is about directly applying aggregations on a SharePoint List, without specifying any grouping condition. If you want to group SharePoint List data before applying aggregation then, refer to this post, SharePoint Group By.

I must admit that this turned out to be little tricky than what I had imagined. The situation was fairly simple. I had a SharePoint List. I had applied couple of Totals functions, Standard Deviation & Variance, on one of its Number field in two separate custom views. I just wanted to retrieve those values from client side. That’s it! My initial assessment was there must be some function/property that I can easily query from the client. As it seemed initially, there’s no direct way of doing that. Fine, just another day at the office for a SharePoint developer 😉

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