To retrieve list data from sharepoint

I wanted to acces list data from sharepoint as i want to use开发者_如何学编程 that data in another application.Can u tell me how do i connect with sharepoint? ...

you need to either use SharePoint list services or BDC (business data catalog) to pull data from SharePoint. Read this for clues on list services. Here is article from MSDN on BDC.