How does the credential provider actually work?

[forderud]

Thanks for sharing this sample project! I'm looking into implementing a credential provider myself and was pleasantly surprised when stumbling across a sample C# project. This makes it so much easier to get started.

Sorry if asking a trivial question, but the high-level working of the project is a bit unclear to me. I see that the CredentialProviderCredential.GetSerialization method has username & password handling, but where do these come from? Are they entered in text fields by the user, do they origin from a file, from special authentication HW or something else?

[SteveSyfuhs]

There are docs... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthn/credential-providers-in-windows