Add Login to Your UWP application

This tutorial demonstrates how to add user login to a UWP C# application using Auth0. We recommend that you log in to follow this quickstart with examples configured for your account.

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System Requirements

This tutorial and sample project have been tested with the following:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022

  • Windows 10 SDK (10.0.26100.0)

  • Auth0.OidcClient.UWP 4.0.0

Configure Auth0

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Configure Auth0

Get Your Application Keys

When you signed up for Auth0, a new application was created for you, or you could have created a new one. You will need some details about that application to communicate with Auth0. You can get these details from the Application Settings section in the Auth0 dashboard.

App Dashboard

You need the following information:

  • Domain
  • Client ID

Configure Callback URLs

A callback URL is a URL in your application where Auth0 redirects the user after they have authenticated. The callback URL for your app must be added to the Allowed Callback URLs field in your Application Settings. If this field is not set, users will be unable to log in to the application and will get an error.

Configure Logout URLs

A logout URL is a URL in your application that Auth0 can return to after the user has been logged out of the authorization server. This is specified in the returnTo query parameter. The logout URL for your app must be added to the Allowed Logout URLs field in your Application Settings. If this field is not set, users will be unable to log out from the application and will get an error.

Integrate Auth0 in your Application

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Install Dependencies

Use the NuGet Package Manager Console (Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Package Manager Console) to install the Auth0.OidcClient.UWP package, running the command:

Install-Package Auth0.OidcClient.UWP

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Trigger Authentication

To integrate Auth0 login into your application, simply instantiate an instance of the Auth0Client class, configuring the Auth0 Domain and Client ID:

// MainPage.xaml.cs

using Auth0.OidcClient;

var client = new Auth0Client(new Auth0ClientOptions
{
    Domain = "{yourDomain}",
    ClientId = "{yourClientId}"
});

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You can then call the LoginAsync method to log the user in:

var loginResult = await client.LoginAsync();

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This loads the Auth0 login page into a web view. You can learn how to customize the login page at this document.

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Handle Authentication Tokens

The returned login result indicates whether authentication was successful, and if so contains the tokens and claims of the user.

Authentication Error

You can check the IsError property of the result to see whether the login has failed. The ErrorMessage contains more information regarding the error which occurred.

if (loginResult.IsError)
{
    Debug.WriteLine($"An error occurred during login: {loginResult.Error}")
}

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Accessing the tokens

On successful login, the login result contains the ID Token and Access Token in the IdentityToken and AccessToken properties respectively.

if (!loginResult.IsError)
{
    Debug.WriteLine($"id_token: {loginResult.IdentityToken}");
    Debug.WriteLine($"access_token: {loginResult.AccessToken}");
}

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Obtaining the User Information

On successful login, the login result contains the user information in the User property, which is a ClaimsPrincipal.

To obtain information about the user, you can query the claims. You can for example obtain the user's name and email address from the name and email claims:

if (!loginResult.IsError)
{
    Debug.WriteLine($"name: {loginResult.User.FindFirst(c => c.Type == "name")?.Value}");
    Debug.WriteLine($"email: {loginResult.User.FindFirst(c => c.Type == "email")?.Value}");
}

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You can obtain a list of all the claims contained in the ID Token by iterating through the Claims collection:

if (!loginResult.IsError)
{
    foreach (var claim in loginResult.User.Claims)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine($"{claim.Type} = {claim.Value}");
    }
}

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Logout

To log the user out call the LogoutAsync method.

await client.LogoutAsync();

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Next Steps

Excellent work! If you made it this far, you should now have login, logout, and user profile information running in your application.

This concludes our quickstart tutorial, but there is so much more to explore. To learn more about what you can do with Auth0, check out:

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