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Microsoft.Identity.Client.Broker NuGet · v4.91.1 · MIT
This package contains binaries needed to use brokers in public client desktop applications and supersedes Microsoft.Identity.Client.Desktop.
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Latest version v4.91.1 74 versions
First published MAR 31, 2023
Last release OCT 19, 2026 5d ago
Licence MIT Repository In the Crest catalog
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for .NET
Language C#
Last push 23d ago
Last release 28d ago Dependencies latest version · v4.91.1 Runtime 2 Microsoft.Identity.Client 4.91.1Microsoft.Identity.Client.NativeInterop 0.20.6Microsoft.Identity.Client This package contains the binaries of the Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET (MSAL.NET).
MSAL.NET makes it easy to obtain tokens from the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly Azure AD v2.0) signing-in users with work & school accounts, Microsoft personal accounts, and social identities via Azure AD B2C. These tokens provide access to Microsoft Cloud API and any other API secured by the Microsoft identity platform. This version supports adding authentication functionality to your .NET based clients - .NET, .NET Framework, .NET MAUI Published from the same repository Microsoft.Identity.Client.Desktop This package contains binaries needed to use the Windows broker and other features with MSAL on older platforms such as .NET Framework and .NET Core 3.x. Published from the same repository Microsoft.Identity.Client.Desktop.WinUI3 This package contains WinUI3-specific binaries for using MSAL.NET with modern Windows applications built on WinUI3 and Windows App SDK. Published from the same repository Microsoft.Identity.Client.Extensions.Msal This package contains the public client (desktop) caching to Microsoft Authentication Library for .NET (MSAL.NET) Published from the same repository microsandbox Python SDK for microsandbox — secure, fast microVM-based sandboxing. Same primary category gam7 CLI tool to manage Google Workspace Same primary category matrix-synapse Homeserver for the Matrix decentralised comms protocol Same primary category simplesamlphp/saml2 SAML2 PHP library from SimpleSAMLphp Same primary category nette/http 🌐 Nette HTTP: the request, response, URL, cookies, sessions and file uploads as objects, with sanitized input and same-origin protection against CSRF. Same primary category MailKit MailKit is an Open Source cross-platform .NET mail-client library that is based on MimeKit and optimized for mobile devices.
Features include:
* HTTP, Socks4, Socks4a and Socks5 proxy support.
* SASL Authentication via ANONYMOUS, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, LOGIN, NTLM, OAUTHBEARER, PLAIN, SCRAM-SHA-1, SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512 and XOAUTH2.
* A fully-cancellable SmtpClient with support for STARTTLS, 8BITMIME, BINARYMIME, ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES, SIZE, DSN, PIPELINING and SMTPUTF8.
* A fully-cancellable Pop3Client with support for STLS, UIDL, APOP, PIPELINING, UTF8, and LANG.
* A fully-cancellable ImapClient with support for ACL, QUOTA, LITERAL+, IDLE, NAMESPACE, ID, CHILDREN, LOGINDISABLED, STARTTLS, MULTIAPPEND, UNSELECT, UIDPLUS, CONDSTORE, ESEARCH, SASL-IR, COMPRESS, WITHIN, ENABLE, QRESYNC, SORT, THREAD, ANNOTATE, LIST-EXTENDED, ESORT, METADATA / METADATA-SERVER, NOTIFY, FILTERS, LIST-STATUS, SORT=DISPLAY, SPECIAL-USE / CREATE-SPECIAL-USE, SEARCH=FUZZY, MOVE, UTF8=ACCEPT / UTF8=ONLY, LITERAL-, APPENDLIMIT, STATUS=SIZE, OBJECTID, REPLACE, SAVEDATE, XLIST, and X-GM-EXT1.
* Client-side sorting and threading of messages (the Ordinal Subject and the Jamie Zawinski threading algorithms are supported).
* Asynchronous versions of all methods that hit the network.
* S/MIME, OpenPGP, DKIM and ARC support via MimeKit.
* Microsoft TNEF support via MimeKit. Same primary category Related news No published news event mentions this package or its repository yet.
