is oAuth possible for C# Windows Application?

Question

I have a windows application, developed in C#. where I need to perform Google oAuth so I'll get their profile. I don't want to ask the user to enter their Google Username and Password in my windows application (and of course users don't want that).

How can I do that ?

I tried 1.) Able to open Google Authentication page from my windows application, but can't figure it out how to get access token passed to my windows application.

Any inputs / suggestions ?

Answer 1

I appreciate this is an old question but I'm currently looking into the same thing. From what I've found, using an embeded webBrowser as per SamFisher83's suggestion is "strongly discouraged".

I thought I'd share this guide from Google themselves.

Link to Google OAuth 2.0 guide

No doubt the OP found a way of doing it, but this was one of the first links that came up via a google search on the subject and thought I'd share the link for any future reference.

Answer 2

What you are probably looking for is called 2-legged OAuth . You can get some example code here , but its in PHP. You can also see a C# Example here

Answer 3

You can have a webBrowser control in you application. You can then let the user log in via the webBrowser control. You can then query the webBrowser control for the data.