I am attempting to make a Windows Forms application that plugs into some services exposed by ASP.NET MVC WebAPI, but am having a great deal of trouble with the authentication/login part.
I cannot seem to find an example that just demonstrates how to do this from Windows Forms, everything I find seems to be very convoluted and includes a lot of very deep plumbing, or seems targeted to other ASP.NET websites, and not windows forms.
Is there something I am missing? Is this just not possible? Or is it just not intended? I've looked at things like this .NET WebApi Authentication that claim to do it, but I don't see how to use cookies from a Windows Forms standpoint. I've also gone over http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/08/26/asp-net-web-api-and-httpclient-samples.aspx and still have had very little luck.