Windows Credential Manager with c#

Korathu Alexander

I am saving the credentails to the windows vault store using the credential manager API . But i need to keep it secure and also what is the maximum password limit length to do so.

Core Code to save and retrieve the credentails in the windows vault folder as below:

//save password to the windows vault store using Credential Manager
public void SavePassword(string password)
{
try
{
using (var cred = new Credential())
{
cred.Password = password;
cred.Target = PasswordName;
cred.Type = CredentialType.Generic;
cred.PersistanceType = PersistanceType.LocalComputer;
cred.Save();
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
}
}
//retrieve password from the windows vault store using Credential Manager
public string GetPassword()
{
try {
using (var cred = new Credential())
{
cred.Target = PasswordName;
cred.Load();
return cred.Password;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
return "";
}

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Venu Madhav Deevi6y ago
Uvaraja C, Did you got any solution for storing credentials in to "Windows Credentials" in stead of storing in "Generic Credentials"? We do have similar requirement and didn't get any solution from web.... When used the nuget provided in this post it is storing in "Generic Credentials".....

If anyone in the communitiy has achieved, please post that solution which will be useful for us to store the credentials in to "Windows Credentials" of Credential Manager store.....
J Alvarez7y ago
If you want to use it to add on Windows Credentials you have to specified the Type...

Credential c = new Credential { Target = "localhost", Type = CredentialType.DomainPassword };

c.Load();
c.Save();
Uvaraja C7y ago
The above code adding credentials only adding in generic credential.

How to add in windows credentials.