NET Community Toolkit Gets Better Every Day! 🎉

We're really thankful to everyone who has contributed and continues to help the .NET Community Toolkit. It's now live on NuGet with version 8.0.0, which marks a major release including numerous new features, improvements, optimizations, bug fixes, and many refactorings to reflect the new project structure and organization.

With every Community Toolkit release, all changes are influenced by feedback received from both teams at Microsoft using the Toolkit as well as other developers in the community. This ensures that the Toolkit continues to meet the needs of its users and provides a better experience overall.

One of the most exciting features of this release is the Microsoft Teams provider, which enables authentication in the Microsoft Teams tab. This feature contains the SharePointProvider for authenticating in a SharePoint environment, as well as the ProxyProvider for applications that proxy Graph calls through a backend package.

The main package includes all the preceding packages and re-exports them so they are available via a single package that can be easily installed and used in your project. Additionally, this package contains all the auto-generated React components and takes dependencies on the other packages mentioned above.

Another notable feature is the Microsoft Graph Toolkit, which includes a SharePoint Framework library required to use Microsoft Graph Toolkit in SharePoint Framework solutions. This toolkit provides a range of features and tools for building custom applications using Microsoft Graph.

We're also happy to announce the official launch of the new Microsoft Teams provider, which enables authentication in the Microsoft Teams tab and contains the TeamsMsal2Provider and mgt-teams-msal2-provider component. This provider uses msal-browser for authenticating in web apps and contains the TeamsProvider and mgt-teams-provider component.

The MSAL provider uses msal.js for authenticating in web apps and Progressive Web Apps, while the Msal2Provider and mgt-msal2-provider component provides additional features and functionality. The following provider packages are available via a single package and can be installed as needed:

* MsalProvider and mgt-msal-provider

* Msal2Provider and mgt-masl-2-provider

Each of these providers exposes the necessary classes and interfaces required to build custom components, and exports the IProvider interface and SimpleProvider class for building custom packages.

The Microsoft Graph Toolkit is made up of several NPM packages, allowing you to only include the code that you need for your application. This means you can easily integrate specific features and functionality into your project without having to load unnecessary code.

To use the ES6 modules, simply add the npm package to your project using npm install mgt-teams-1.0.0. You can then reference all the components on the page that you're using.

Alternatively, you can use the toolkit via mgt-loader by adding a reference in a script to your code. This gives you full control over the bundling process and allows you to bundle only the code that you need for your application.

Overall, this release of the .NET Community Toolkit marks an exciting milestone in its development and provides numerous benefits and features for developers using the Toolkit.

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