Collections in the Microsoft Graph .NET Client Library

Whenever a request returns a collection of objects that allow paging or navigation into the collection, the library generates a complex collection page object.

Getting a collection

To retrieve a collection, like the list of groups in the service, you call GetAsync on the collection request:

await graphServiceClient
	    .Groups
	    .GetAsync();

GetAsync returns an IParsable implementation on success and throws a ServiceException on error.

The IParsable instance returned will typically contain two properties:

Name	Description
Value	An List<Item>.
NextLink	A string representing the url used to get to the next page of items, if another page exists. This value will be null if there is not a next page.
AdditionalData	An IDictionary<string, object> to any additional values returned by the service. In this case, none.

Adding to a collection

Some collections, like the groups collection, can be changed. To create a group you can call:

var groupToCreate = new Group
{
    GroupTypes = new List<string> { "Unified" },
    DisplayName = "Unified group",
    Description = "Best group ever"
};
	
var newGroup = await graphServiceClient
							.Groups
							.PostAsync(groupToCreate);

AddAsync returns the created group on success and throws a ApiException on error.

Expanding a collection

To expand a collection, you call Expand on the collection request object with the string value of the expand:

var children = await graphServiceClient
    .Drive
    .Items["itemId"]
    .Children
    .GetAsync((requestConfiguration) => requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Expand = new[] { "thumbnails" });