Secure API token handling in Windows app: the token is needed to authenticate the requests to a backend server

I’m currently working on a UWP app that involves validating redemption codes against a Cloudflare KV storage backend. That’s all the backend server is for.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant Now Helps Developers Move Off of Xamarin, UWP

Microsoft announced that its .NET Upgrade Assistant extension for Visual Studio now supports migrating apps from some legacy frameworks to newer, more modern frameworks.
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How to authenticate a device without users or user input, with changing IP adresses

We have a series of applications that simply show information. In order to fetch this information, these applications need to reach our servers. We block every connection, except connections from a whitelisted IP in combination with an app… Continue reading How to authenticate a device without users or user input, with changing IP adresses

The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): Text Zoom, App Name, App Icon (Premium)

This time, we’ll implement .NETpad’s text zooming capabilities, fix the application name, and add a new application icon.
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The UWP Notepad Project (Redux): New, Save, and Save As (Premium)

With File Open and the Save prompt out of the way, we can move forward to the other app commands that involve file operations: New, Save, and Save As.
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