In my win-fourms application, I would like to do something like to use the account password similarly to how apple has the touch id API. I could not find any information on this. Here is an example I saw in the built in groove music app in windows 10:
Thank you!
When Microsoft built the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) they built in an authentication library that allows you to use user's Microsoft Accounts. There is no built in support for this in WinForms or WPF apps.
However, you can use the Microsoft OAuth endpoint to accomplish the same thing, it just won't look the same (requires a browser popup for starters). More information can be found here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-v2-protocols-oauth-code
The code basically requires doing a bunch of REST calls and providing a listening socket for an asynchronous response.
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I'm trying to use WebAccountManager for making login easier in a Windows 10 Universal Windows App (UWP).
It seems like the documentation around how to use WebAccountManager is somewhat lacking. Are Microsoft Account (MSA) and AAD the only WebAccountProvider implementations that come out of the box?
Did anyone have any luck making this work, and have code to share?
Thanks!
The identity providers unsupported by WebAccountManager can be added to the authentication prompt using the WebAccountProvider class.
Getting the access token of the new provider is the responsibility of the WebAuthenticationBroker class.
Note: You may also want to use the newer MSAL.net library instead. It appears to be equivalent to the WebAccountManager and there's also a simple UWP code example available.
I'm planning to write an application in c# in visual stuio 2013 that will allow a facebook user to login and receive their facebook notifications straight to the desktop as popups. Ive searched around and cannot seem to find whether or not it is possible to get notifications from facebook as soon as they happen and react to them in a suitable way, i'm wondering if this is possible and which bits of the api/ sdk i would need to use to get this to work.
Thanks in advance,
Alistair
Reading from the Facebook Developer's page(https://developers.facebook.com/), there isn't any specific SDK to C#, for desktop applications
.
But there is a SDK for Javascript, maybe a web application can be an option for you.
I know I have seen apps that log me in using Facebook but never present me with an authorization screen. I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to do this with Windows Phone 7. The best I have been able to get is using the Facebook for C# SDK to get the authorization screen in a WebView. This looks hideous and the page does not even appear to be mobile ready.
I have searched high and low for an answer and have found nothing. Wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction to getting this to work?
Yes, I also saw this kind of apps (e.g. Spotify prompts you to enter your Facebook account credentials rather than using the normal authorization flow). My best guess is that they either some kind of premium partners and have access to some private APIs or they use custom authorization flows (e.g. when you authorize an app on a website, the system saves authorization key in the database. The same app id/secret is then used in Windows Phone app and all you need to do is to type in your email/username in order for the system to locate authorization key that was saved earlier).
I also don't like the approach of displaying Facebook login/auth using WebBrowser control (mostly because of UI inconsistency) but I'd say that this is still the way to go in most cases (because this is the official and recommended way of authorizing the app and all other approaches seem hacky for me and also have their disadvantages).
You will want to be using the "server-side authentication" approach. The following document describes how it works: Server-side authentication (read also OAuth Dialog documentation for how to configure the authentication dialog). You can change the way the UI looks by passing a display parameter (either to touch or wap).
Please note that display=touch is currently broken in Windows Phone - Facebook always falls back to wap which is deprecated and will be removed as per July 2012 update (corresponding case: Facebook API can't be used with Windows Phone apps). It's also among known issues on Facebook C# SDK project page: Facebook C# SDK - Known issues.
Hope this clarifies things a bit.
Ultimately I want to create a desktop app that allows users to update their own status, view status' of their friends, update pics etc. - basically a lot of the functionality the facebook website provides. Through looking through some tutorials and sample projects it seems that an app must be created for the facebook account. Now is this the facebook account of the developer (i.e. mine) - which will provide an API key that will allow any other user to log in?? Does every desktop project need to authenticate the user through a facebook dialog window to take the users' credentials?? Where does OAuth fit into this?? If anyone can shed any light as to the structure of the facebook api and the ways in which I can grant this functionality from say a WPF C# app for example I would really appreciate it.
EDIT: Before complaints of a potentially huge question or too 'vague', my question is specific to the integration/use of the facebook API in desktop applications - not how to then retrieve status feeds etc. I'll work that out myself.
Per Facebook documentation, all desktop apps will need to implement some form of web browser integration, whether embedded within the desktop app or controlled.
See: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
Desktop Apps
Our OAuth 2.0 implementation does not include explicit desktop app
support. However, if your desktop app can embed a web browser (most
desktop frameworks such as .NET, AIR and Cocoa support embedding
browsers), you can use the client-side flow with one modification: a
specific redirect_uri. Rather than requiring desktop apps to host a
web server and populate the Site URL in the Developer App, we provide
a specific URL you can use with desktop apps:
https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html.
Don't worry it took me two solid days of trial and error and re-re-reading of the documentation on authentication to finally "get" it.
Can I use the facebook API to make a windows desktop application? Like create a chat client to use to chat with facebook users??
yes, while I have not done it myself, there seem to be standalone apps developed for facebook like FaceoffIM... so I am assuming you can.
If I remember correctly, Telerik is maintaining something in Silverlight called fdek... which would again mean in principle it is possible.
There is also a Facebook C# SDK available on Codeplex which might be of use... under its project description it states "The Facebook C# SDK helps .Net developers build web, desktop, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications that integrate with Facebook."
Yes, you can develop desktop applications that interact with the Facebook API's.
You can use the C# SDK which is introduced in this official blog post https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/395
Basically, any desktop application just needs to send http web requests to the Facebook API's. The easiest would be to use the the Graph API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/)
Hope this helps.