Windows Store App - Using Facebook to authenticate the user

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In this video, Gianluca Bertelli, an Escalation Engineer from Italy, will show you how to integrate Facebook within our Windows Store Applications – Using the class WebAuthenticationBroker to authenticate the users with any authentication provider that uses Oauth2 as protocol.  You will see how to create an application that emulates a Single Sign On. The last topic covered is how to deal with the token that is returned by Facebook, how to store and reuse it later.

 

For your convenience, here’s the video timeline:

  • [2:00] Oauth2 and WebAuthenticationBroker theory

  • [6:17] Coding the login method

  • [8:01] SSO, Token and PasswordVault

  • [15:18] Coding SSO – how to reuse a token