I have to memorize the username and password and Ipaddress in a wpf applicdation and i try to do it using Credential Manager in the way given at this link: Encrypting credentials in a WPF application
It memorizes well the Username and password but never memorizes the Ipaddres which i treid to memorize. The other problem is it forget the memorization of even Usrname and password on the next day when i turn on PC. It should always remember it.
My code is here :
For writing credentials to COM :
public static int WriteCredential(string applicationName, string userName, string secret,string ipAddress)
{
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(secret);
if (byteArray.Length > 512)
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("secret", "The secret message has exceeded 512 bytes.");
CREDENTIAL credential = new CREDENTIAL(); //see below my credential structure
credential.AttributeCount = 0;
credential.Attributes = IntPtr.Zero;
credential.Comment = IntPtr.Zero;
credential.TargetAlias = IntPtr.Zero;
credential.Type = CredentialType.Generic;
credential.Persist = (UInt32)CredentialPersistence.Session;
credential.CredentialBlobSize = (UInt32)Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(secret).Length;
credential.TargetName = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(applicationName);
credential.CredentialBlob = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(secret);
credential.UserName = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(userName ?? Environment.UserName);
credential.IpAddress= Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemUni(ipAddress);
bool written = CredWrite(ref credential, 0);
int lastError = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(credential.TargetName);
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(credential.CredentialBlob);
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(credential.UserName);
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(credential.IpAddress);
if (written)
return 0;
throw new Exception(string.Format("CredWrite failed with the error code {0}.", lastError));
}
Credential struct:
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
private struct CREDENTIAL
{
public UInt32 Flags;
public CredentialType Type;
public IntPtr TargetName;
public IntPtr Comment;
public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME LastWritten;
public UInt32 CredentialBlobSize;
public IntPtr CredentialBlob;
public UInt32 Persist;
public UInt32 AttributeCount;
public IntPtr Attributes;
public IntPtr TargetAlias;
public IntPtr UserName;
public IntPtr IpAddress;
}
For reading from COM:
public static Credential ReadCredential(string applicationName)
{
IntPtr nCredPtr;
bool read = CredRead(applicationName, CredentialType.Generic, 0, out nCredPtr);
if (read)
{
using (CriticalCredentialHandle critCred = new CriticalCredentialHandle(nCredPtr))
{
CREDENTIAL cred = critCred.GetCredential(); //cred.IpAddress gives me null here whereas it is not null in case of UserName and CredentialBlob
return ReadCredential(cred);
}
}
return null;
}
How to solve the two problems:
(1) How to memorize IP address
(2) How to memorize the data even next day after the next PC turn on
I found the answer for second question :CRED_PERSIST_LOCAL_MACHINE but not first First Question, The other solution for second problem i could find was doing " CredentialManager.WriteCredential("Application", userName + "+" + ipAddress, passWord);" and then split while Reading it on '+' . If somebody konw beter solution ?