Making MS Graph Requests using Managed Identities

Ray Held [MSFT]

This blog post is an extension to my previous post about how to get secrets and access tokens using Managed Identities with VB.Net and C#. You can read that post here. There is a c# sample for this particular blog here. The scenario here is that you already have the code to use the managed identities and now you want to get an access token for a resource that requires…

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Using Azure Identity Client with VB.Net or C# to get a KeyVault secret

Ray Held [MSFT]

This blog post will show you how to use the Azure Identity Client library in VB.Net and C# to use a Managed Identity to access a secret in KeyVault. This is assuming that you already have a keyVault secret and the user has the proper access policy to read a keyvault secret. This post will not show you how to do those tasks, only how to implement the Azure Identity…

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Using MSAL in a VB.Net Winforms application

Ray Held [MSFT]

All of our MSAL samples are for either Web, mobile client or console applications in c#. This blog post will show how you can also use MSAL in vb.net in a Winforms desktop application. When creating a winforms application, the thing to remember is that code in your form will run under the UI thread, which, for the most part is ok. However, when MSAL prompts for credentials, it will…

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Using the GraphClient SDK in a VB.Net Console Application

Ray Held [MSFT]

In this blog post, I will show you how to use the GraphClient in a VB.Net application. You will need to create an app registration for this project. I used the exact same app registration that I used in my previous VB.Net blog post here. SDK Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/sdks-overview?view=graph-rest-1.0 I am using Visual Studio 2019 in this example. To begin, please start a VB.Net Console application and then install the following…

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VB.NET – Use MSAL.Net in a Console Application to Authenticate to Azure

Ray Held [MSFT]

At one point in recent history, VB.Net was one of the most popular development languages around. In fact, there are many legacy applications written in VB.Net and even still, VB.Net is still in the top 10 languages ( source: https://www.techworm.net/2018/02/popular-programming-languages-2018-according-tiobe-pypl.html ).  I will show a simple console application using VB.Net to authenticate using MSAL.Net Of course, the first step, as in everything Azure, starts with setting up an app registration…

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