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Monday 30 July 2012

Best practices when adding single sign-on to your app with the Live SDK

A few months ago I wrote about how to bring single sign-on and SkyDrive to your Windows 8 apps with the Live SDK. Since then we made the Windows 8 Release Preview publicly available and we’ve begun to see some inconsistency in the design patterns forming in how apps expose entry points for users to sign in, connect accounts or sign-out of their experience.

To help you with these design patterns, we put together some guidelines for apps that want to use a user’s Microsoft account. In this post I share those guidelines with you and show you some code for how to get started.

Best practices when adding single sign-on to your app with the Live SDK

 
There are three primary scenarios where your app might need to integrate authentication with Microsoft accounts:

  1. Your app requires the user to be signed in to work.
  2. Your app can work if the user isn’t signed in but provides a personalized experience for users that signed in.
  3. Your app has specific tasks that require Microsoft account sign-in such as integrating with SkyDrive or Hotmail.

Now let’s dive into the details of each of these.

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