{"id":3179,"date":"2015-01-15T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2015-01-15T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:20:05","slug":"adal-2-x-servicing-release-introduces-support-for-windows-phone-8-1-silverlight-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/adal-2-x-servicing-release-introduces-support-for-windows-phone-8-1-silverlight-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"ADAL 2.X Servicing Release Introduces Support for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you head to the NuGet gallery you\u2019ll find that we just released an update to our ADAL .NET package<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This servicing update (we go from v2.13<\/strong>.112191810 to v2.14<\/strong>.201151115) fixes various bugs. The one you\u2019re most likely to have stumbled upon is one issue with Windows Store apps publication \u2013 which is solved in the release.<\/p>\n

This release also introduces a new feature: the ability to use ADAL in Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight applications. Until now, ADAL only worked with Windows Phone 8.1 Store applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SL apps support was a feature you have been very vocal about: for example, see the twitter exchange I had with Ginny<\/a> back in June.<\/p>\n

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In the last few months we heard more and more of that feedback \u2013 from internal and external customers. Although there are ways of getting tokens from those kind of apps (the code delta is non zero but pretty small, it\u2019s more of a matter of creating an assembly for it rather than a winmd), we found ourselves spending cycles to help people understand their options \u2013 and we realized that it would have been more efficient for everybody if we would simply bite the bullet and include Windows Phone\u00a0 8.1 Silverlight apps as a new target platform in our official NuGet. So, that\u2019s exactly what we did \"Smile\" and given that the programming surface did not change, we were able to do this in a servicing release.<\/p>\n

Using ADAL in a Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight app<\/h2>\n

Using ADAL in a winphone 8.1 SL app is not very different from doing so in a winphone Windows Store one<\/a>, which is why we are not releasing a new sample for it at this time. If you think you need one please let us know, though!<\/p>\n

The main difference lies in the way in which SL apps deal with the continuation model (behind the scenes we use the WebAuthenticationBroker, which is why this only works with 8.1 and we still need to handle continuation).
\nThe application events cycle is slightly different, which influences where you need to inject the continuation handling code.<\/p>\n

Here there\u2019s a quick walkthrough to show how to see ADAL in action in your Windows Phone 8.1 SL app.<\/p>\n