remember credentials

[laziale]

hi guys, I have a question, I want to know how I can store credentials(username, password) once they will be entered and if the user checks the checkbox that he wants to have them stored, so they will not care about typing again when they will visit again the app. It's not a web app, it's a desktop app. Thanks in advance

[Colwin]

You could encrypt the data and then store it in the registry And when the user signs in the next time just pick up the values from there and pass it to the Authentication system you are using hope it helps

[Christian Graus]

However you like. Registry/XML/app config/database/whatever

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[Mbah Dhaim]

there are many ways to get your goal, store them to file, registry or configuration file(AppSettings), for example, you just store them to your configuration file, if the setting key is exist and its value not empty then use them as stored credential data, but you must encoded them for security purpose dhaim program is hobby that make some money as side effect :)

[Pete OHanlon]

Write a file that contains this information and read it back in later on. This is consistent with the way that websites do it using cookies.

using (IsolatedStorage storage = IsolatedStorage.GetUserStorForDomain())
{
using (IsolatedStorageFileStream fs = new IsolatedStorageFileStream("MySession.xml", FileMode.Create, storage)
{
// Write the "cookie"...
fs.Close();
}
}

To read it back in...

using (IsolatedStorage storage = IsolatedStorage.GetUserStorForDomain())
{
using (IsolatedStorageFileStream fs = new IsolatedStorageFileStream("MySession.xml", FileMode.Open, storage)
{
// Read the "cookie"...
fs.Close();
}
}

The advantage of this method (using IsolatedStorage) is that it can only be read by the user/assembly that created it, and is completely Vista friendly.

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