Question

In a Metro Style app, I would like to use the WinRT provided CredentialPicker, mainly in order to provide a consistent look and feel for the user. However I only need a password, and not a username and password.

Is it possible to somehow hide the “User Name” entry box (as well as the user icon), but keep all other functionality when using Basic authentication?

Bascially I would like to have something like this:

using Windows.Security.Credentials.UI;

async Task<string> GetPassword() {
  CredentialPickerOptions options = new CredentialPickerOptions();
  options.ShowUsernameEntry = false; // Error: No such API

  var result = await CredentialPicker.PickAsync(options);
  return result.CredentialPassword;
}

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The answer is no. you can’t do that.