c# - Azure Active Directory Graph Client 2.0 - Context is not currently tracking the entity

Question

I have recently installed the Azure Active Directory Graph Client Library 2.0.2 Nuget package and am unable to add Members to Groups both adding a group to a group or adding a user to a group I am getting the following error when the AddLink function is called:

“[System.InvalidOperationException] = {"The context is not currently tracking the entity."}

My code:

IGroup group = azureClient.Groups.GetByObjectId("Guid here").ExecuteAsync().Result;
IGroup groupToAdd = azureClient.Groups.GetByObjectId("Guid here").ExecuteAsync().Result;
azureClient.Context.AddLink(group, "Members", groupToAdd);
azureClient.Context.SaveChanges();

I have been unable to find any mention of this error in relation to the Azure Active Directory Graph Client Library from doing Google searches so any help on this would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

We’ve just released an update to the Graph client library, that fixes this problem. You should now be able to add members to groups. The mechanism is a little different from using AddLinks (and hopefully simpler).

We also have a new blog describing the client library which talks about this and many other things: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aadgraphteam/archive/2014/12/12/announcing-azure-ad-graph-api-client-library-2-0.aspx

For reference, to add a member to a group:

{groupObject}.Members.Add({entityObject} as DirectoryObject);

So for example, to update a group with a new user member:

myGroup.Members.Add(userToBeAdded as DirectoryObject); await myGroup.UpdateAsync();

NOTE: The same construct can be used to add users to a DirectoryRole object. Groups and users may be added to a group, however, for now, only users can be added to a DirectoryRole.

Hope this helps,