How to run the completed project

Prerequisites

To run the completed project in this folder, you need the following:

• Visual Studio installed on your development machine. If you do not have Visual Studio, visit the previous link for download options. (Note: This tutorial was written with Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2.3. The steps in this guide may work with other versions, but that has not been tested.)
• Either a personal Microsoft account with a mailbox on Outlook.com, or a Microsoft work or school account.

If you don't have a Microsoft account, there are a couple of options to get a free account:

• You can sign up for a new personal Microsoft account.
• You can sign up for the Office 365 Developer Program to get a free Office 365 subscription.

Register a web application with the Azure Active Directory admin center

1. Determine your ASP.NET applications's SSL URL. In Visual Studio's Solution Explorer, select the graph-tutorial project. In the Properties window, find the value of SSL URL. Copy this value.

2. Open a browser and navigate to the Azure Active Directory admin center. Login using a personal account (aka: Microsoft Account) or Work or School Account.

3. Select Azure Active Directory in the left-hand navigation, then select App registrations under Manage.

4. Select New registration. On the Register an application page, set the values as follows.

   • Set Name to ASP.NET Graph Tutorial.
   • Set Supported account types to Accounts in any organizational directory and personal Microsoft accounts.
   • Under Redirect URI, set the first drop-down to Web and set the value to the ASP.NET app URL you copied in step 1.

5. Choose Register. On the ASP.NET Graph Tutorial page, copy the value of the Application (client) ID and save it, you will need it in the next step.

6. Select Authentication under Manage. Locate the Implicit grant section and enable ID tokens. Choose Save.

7. Select Certificates & secrets under Manage. Select the New client secret button. Enter a value in Description and select one of the options for Expires and choose Add.

8. Copy the client secret value before you leave this page. You will need it in the next step.

   [!IMPORTANT] This client secret is never shown again, so make sure you copy it now.

Configure the sample

1. Rename the PrivateSettings.config.example file to PrivateSettings.config.
2. Edit the PrivateSettings.config file and make the following changes.
   1. Replace YOUR_APP_ID_HERE with the Application Id you got from the App Registration Portal.
   2. Replace YOUR_APP_PASSWORD_HERE with the Application Secret you got from the App Registration Portal.
3. Open graph-tutorial.sln in Visual Studio. In Solution Explorer, right-click the graph-tutorial solution and choose Restore NuGet Packages.

Run the sample

In Visual Studio, press F5 or choose Debug > Start Debugging.