A stand-alone application with access to SharePoint

Hi,

In SharePoint 2010 I was able to develop a completely stand-alone application (for example, a console application or an ASP.NET website) that utilized some SharePoint functionality such as lists and libraries.

I'm wondering if it is still possible to develop such stand-alone applications with SharePoint 2013. If so, would it be possible to use some elements of SharePoint 2013 in such an app (for example a SPTreeView)?

Thanks,

Leszek

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