Tag: windows

Console App Credentials and the Windows Credential Manager

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 Geoff Hudik

In working on a little utility to query JIRA tickets in a sprint, I needed a JIRA username and password to pass along to the Atlassian.Net SDK. I didn’t want to prompt for those credentials each time but I also didn’t want to store the credentials myself either, even if encrypted. Using the Windows Credential…

The Curious Case of the Missing Console Window

July 26, 2017 Geoff Hudik

Recently I ran a .NET console app in Visual Studio 2017 and noticed the console window never appeared. I could set breakpoints and step through the code and everything executed fine, except for any console I/O since the window itself was missing or hidden. I checked underneath other windows, tried Alt+Tab, made sure it wasn’t…