Retrieve credentials from Windows Credentials Store using C#

There is a NuGet library that I’ve been using, called CredentialManagement.

The usage is pretty simple. I wrapped it a little, but I probably didn’t need to:

public static class CredentialUtil
{
    public static UserPass GetCredential(string target)
    {
        var cm = new Credential {Target = target};
        if (!cm.Load())
        {
            return null;
        }

        // UserPass is just a class with two string properties for user and pass
        return new UserPass(cm.Username, cm.Password);
    }

    public static bool SetCredentials(
         string target, string username, string password, PersistanceType persistenceType)
    {
       return new Credential {Target = target,
                              Username = username,
                              Password = password,
                              PersistanceType =  persistenceType}.Save();
    }

    public static bool RemoveCredentials(string target)
    {
        return new Credential { Target = target }.Delete();
    }
}

Sample usage:

CredentialUtil.SetCredentials("FOO", "john", "1234", PersistanceType.LocalComputer);
var userpass = CredentialUtil.GetCredential("FOO");
Console.WriteLine($"User: {userpass.Username} Password: {userpass.Password}");
CredentialUtil.RemoveCredentials("FOO");
Debug.Assert(CredentialUtil.GetCredential("FOO") == null);

If you’re interested in implementing it yourself, browse the source:
http://credentialmanagement.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest

The trick is that there is no C# API into the Credential Manager. This library wraps the other .dll entry points nicely. 🙂