How to pass credentials to use ResourceManagementClient to get all resources from azure resource group c#?

Question

I have install nuget Microsoft.Azure.Management.ResourceManager and have following code to get all existing resources based on Resource Group Name

 var resouceManagementClient = new ResourceManagementClient(credentials) { SubscriptionId = "mySubscriptionId" };

            var listResources =
            resouceManagementClient.ResourceGroups.ListResources("Demo-ResourceGroup");

I'm not sure from where I can get credentials parameter value.

I do not have Azure Active Directory access , I think its must , can we bypass azure AD?.

In my azure portal I have create a Resource Group - Demo-ResourceGroup and have many resources created .

I want only list of all existing resources using c# code.

Answer 1

One way is by grabbing an access token from Azure AD and passing it in to a TokenCredentials class.

var authContext = new AuthenticationContext(string.Format("https://login.windows.net/{0}", tenantId));
var credential = new ClientCredential(applicationId, password);
AuthenticationResult token = authContext.AcquireTokenAsync("https://management.core.windows.net/", credential).Result;
var credentials = new TokenCredentials(token.AccessToken);

The set of credentials you use to request the acces token (in this case clientId/secret) will determine whether the application has the appropriate rights to enumerate the resources. This is a good MS docs page on how to register your application with AAD . In the example above, applicationId and password come from the application registration in AAD

Microsoft has a page describing other ways you can get tokens from AAD .