Where is the documentation on creating a custom Windows Credential Provider located? Everything I've found so far points to the same article on how to make a custom credential provider (MSDN Magazine: "Create Custom Login Experiences With Credential Providers For Windows Vista"), but neither that article nor anything else I can find provides documentation on how things actually work. At best there are some code samples, but those don't explain the full mechanics of credential providers or usefully show how to roll your own.
There is now a proper documentation here. It contains everything you should know when developing custom credential providers.
In an article on Windows Vista Smart Card Infrastructure, there is a link to Credential Provider Technical Reference (link to Credential Provider Technical Reference on archive.msdn.microsoft.com). The list contains a document which describes the Windows Vista Credential Provider Framework. I think you will find this technical reference quite helpful in understanding how Credential Provider in Windows works.
Hope you find what you are looking for!
In the Windows SDK, there is a Credential Provider code example in the Samples\security folder. There is also documentation (in MHTML format) for the example, contained in the SDK files. In the latest Windows SDK, the Credential Provider example has been updated to be suitable for Windows 7, says the document.
Strangely, the documentation doesn't seem to be available online anywhere. It's just there in the SDK docs.
Please note that Microsoft Windows SDK is something that you need to separately install, even if you already have Visual Studio installed.
Welcome to the beautiful world of Windows 10.
Microsoft have actually updated the documentation a tiny little bit for Windows 10, there is this page, and at the bottom, it links to the technical reference for credentail providers with updates for Windows 10. Which has (at the time of writing this) a big disclaimer at the top that it is only pre-release information and accuracy is not guaranteed. For example, at the bottom of the reference is still the e-mail address credprov#microsoft.com which has apparently been invalid for a long time already.
The most recent source code example is the open-source C# wrapper pgina which may help illustrate how to use this CredentialProvider API.
This MSMVP How-To looks pretty helpful up to Windows 7 and points you to some documentation.
And this MSDN V2 Credential Provider sample includes changes for Windows 8/8.1. Seems like a good place to start.
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I try to find a way to detect dynamically if an app is installed on a computer inside of another UWP. Is there a way to access user app list or is there a workaround ?
You can use the other app's URI to detect it.
Here's an article I found from 2015 that discusses it.
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/6f0898/inter-app-communications-in-windows-10-uwp535/
Let me know if that doesn't work for some reason or if you need newer info, then I do some more digging to provide more info.
All the best!
I am looking into changing the Windows 7 login process for my school project. Unfortunately, I've not been able to find any way to do so..
I would like to replace the standard user-name and password with a QR code, graphical password and a kinect motion password. Is there anyway to do this (is it even possible?).
Alternatively I am looking to have an application that will open up full-screen without a close, minimize button etc, and have it open on windows login.
Any code example or reference would be very helpful. Thanks!
Credential Providers are used in Windows 7 to implement custom authentication schemes. Here are some links that may prove useful:
Create Custom Login Experiences With Credential Providers For Windows Vista
Documentation for creating a Custom Credential Provider in Windows
Windows 7 Credential Provider Sample
A good read on Windows internals should help you understand what you need for this project. Mark Russinovich is pretty much the man when it comes to Windows internals and has written numerous books on the topic.
Windows Sysinternals: Windows Internals Book
Amazon: product page
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I tried getting AccExplorer32 from this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd631969.aspx and many others, but it says that Page cannot be found. Can someone please upload it somewhere, I'll appreciate it.
EDIT:
AccExplorer32 is not included in the current SDK (7.1). It's replaced with UISpy, which is also not included in 7.1. But you can download it from here: http://andrewtokeley.net/archive/2009/09/15/uispy-ndash-download-it-here.aspx (broken link)
As you say, UISpy.exe is not in the v7.1 SDK. It has been replaced by Inspect.exe which is in the v7.1 SDK Tools, works very well, and does both MSAA and UIA.
More details on Inspect is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318521(v=vs.85).aspx
Here is a forum with a valid link that might solve your problem:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsaccessibilityandautomation/thread/81dbfae1-7f57-44e2-ac47-9fd20b1bef54
AccExplorer32.exe
I had great difficulty in finding this tool (among others from MS used for accessibility testing), so I have uploaded a copy to my GitHub repo.
Accessibility tools
AccExplorer32.exe
inspect32.exe
I am working on a legacy project where the newer tools like Accessibility insights are not that helpful. The older tools were focused more towards MSAA (Microsoft Active accessibility), while newer tools are focused more towards Microsoft UI Automation.
Does anyone know how to access SkyDrive programmatically from Windows Phone 7? What API do I use? I need to upload files from the Phone to SkyDrive and vice versa.
Some code samples would be great. :-)
You can now officially integrate parts of SkyDrive with Windows Phone 7 applications.
Details outlined here.
There is a new Live SDK available from Microsoft which I think can do this. It's also in a very early alpha or beta state:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264574.aspx
I have developed a sample based on SkyPad (Developer Preview). Please install the Windows Live Developer preview SDK.
The sample allows to save a file to SkyDrive and dowload it again after saving.
Here the link:
http://blog.mecum.biz/2011/10/windows-phone-7-mango-skydrive-sample/
You can use the Live SDK to integrate SkyDrive into your Windows Phone applications. Please see our code samples on GitHub.
Not an answer, but there's hope that an answer is on the way:
However, when Mike Torres was asked about features such as better usability, third-party API support, Windows Live Mesh integration, and expandable storage, he acknowledged that these are "top asks" for SkyDrive and said that they are currently "hard at work on SkyDrive as we speak"
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Your requirements sound pretty much like mine - you just want to use skydrive as a basic cloud filesystem.
I thought Matt's suggestion was an outstanding idea. I obtained the library and set out to port it, but unfortunately the codebase is huge and elaborate and absolutely riddled with the [Serializable] attribute which is not compatible with WP7. It also makes extensive use of several pieces of framework not available in WP7x, including X509Chain and Authorization.
SkyDriveApi is not even compatible with VS2010 - an attempted conversion produced a big mess so I just tried it out in VS2008.
We could always write one. This looks like a fair bit of work so I invite you to collaborate.
Well, it's feature complete and working a treat. I'd like to thank people for all the support and assistance I received reverse engineering the protocol using Fiddler, and coding, testing and debugging the prototype into production ready code. I'd like to, but nobody contributed a damn thing. Good luck writing your own.
SkyDrive doesn't have an official API but here are some unofficial ones. I'd start by looking at http://skydriveapiclient.codeplex.com/.
It doesn't claim support for WP7 but you may be able to port it.
I have an authentication key (USB dongle) that I would like to use in place of logging into windows. The dongle is not just a simple thumb-drive it is a specialized dongle made for software authentication.
I've seen tutorials on how to do this with Phidgets RFID kit, however I can't seem to find that tutorial anywhere now.
Basically I need something that looks for this key on start up. I already have the code to look for the key, I just need to be able to actually tell the system log in.
How would I go about that?
I doubt you'd want to be writing something like this in C#, but the basics of how to customize the logon experience is outlined in this article. Note that the mechanism changed between XP and Vista, so you'd probably need to write two different components if you wanted to support both.