Integrate the Microsoft Graph API into your .NET project!
The Microsoft Graph .NET Client Library targets .NetStandard 1.1 and .Net Framework 4.5.
To install the client library via NuGet:
- Search for
Microsoft.Graphin the NuGet Library, or - Type
Install-Package Microsoft.Graphinto the Package Manager Console.
Register your application to use Microsoft Graph API using the Microsoft Application Registration Portal.
The Microsoft Graph .NET Client Library does not currently include any default authentication implementations.
There are set of preview authentication providers available in the msgraph-sdk-dotnet-auth repo. Alternatively, you can use the built-in DelegateAuthenticationProvider class to authenticate each request.
For more information on DelegateAuthenticationProvider, see the library overview.
The recommended library for authenticating against Microsoft Identity (Azure AD) is MSAL.
For an example of authenticating a UWP app using the V2 Authentication Endpoint, see the Microsoft Graph UWP Connect Library.
An instance of the GraphServiceClient class handles building requests,
sending them to Microsoft Graph API, and processing the responses. To create a
new instance of this class, you need to provide an instance of
IAuthenticationProvider which can authenticate requests to Microsoft Graph.
For more information on initializing a client instance, see the library overview
Once you have completed authentication and have a GraphServiceClient, you can begin to make calls to the service. The requests in the SDK follow the format of the Microsoft Graph API's RESTful syntax.
For example, to retrieve a user's default drive:
var drive = await graphClient.Me.Drive.Request().GetAsync();GetAsync will return a Drive object on success and throw a
ServiceException on error.
To get the current user's root folder of their default drive:
var rootItem = await graphClient.Me.Drive.Root.Request().GetAsync();GetAsync will return a DriveItem object on success and throw a
ServiceException on error.
For a general overview of how the SDK is designed, see overview.
The following sample applications are also available:
- Microsoft Graph UWP Connect Sample
- Microsoft Graph UWP Snippets Sample
- Microsoft Graph MeetingBot sample for UWP
- Microsoft Graph Connect Sample for ASP.NET 4.6
- Microsoft Graph Snippets Sample for ASP.NET 4.6
- Microsoft Graph SDK Snippets Library for Xamarin.Forms
- Microsoft Graph Connect Sample for Xamarin Forms
- Microsoft Graph Meeting Manager Sample for Xamarin.Forms
- Microsoft Graph Property Manager Sample for Xamarin Native
Install NewtonSoft.Json first if you want to use a version greater than NewtonSoft.Json 6.0.1. For example, you'll need to install NewtonSoft.Json 9.0.1 first if you want to use this to library while targeting .Net Core with standard1.0.
Install System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation before you install Microsoft.Graph >=1.3 if you are having an issue updating the package for a Xamarin solution. You may need to updated references to Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform to >=5.2.2 as well.
To view or log issues, see issues.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
- NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Graph
If you are looking to build the library locally for the purposes of contributing code or running tests, you will need to:
- Have the .NET Core SDK (> 1.0) installed
- Run
dotnet restorefrom the command line in your package directory - Run
nuget restoreandmsbuildfrom CLI or run Build from Visual Studio to restore Nuget packages and build the project
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