[AuthenticationSimpleSample] Unable to complete sample setup

[timheuer]

The instructions aren't complete enough to get this running.

• Indicates that I need to create/deploy an Azure backend, but I'm not sure what services I need...it points to a generic article that uses a different app?
• On the auth/scope setup I put all the values in the Constants.cs file but still fails on startup because the B2C information is likely wrong, but the information in README is not telling me what, if anything I need to change.

[gal42]

Your client app needs a way to trust the security tokens issued to it by the Microsoft identity platform. The first step in establishing that trust is by registering your app with the identity platform in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or Azure Active Directory B2C.

When you register your app in Azure, the Microsoft identity platform automatically assigns it some values, while others you configure based on the application's type.

Two the most commonly referenced app registration settings are:

• Application (client) ID - Also called application ID and client ID, this value is assigned to your app by the Microsoft identity platform. The client ID uniquely identifies your app in the identity platform and is included in the security tokens the platform issues.
• Redirect URI - The authorization server uses a redirect URI to direct the resource owner's user-agent (web browser, mobile app) to another destination after completing their interaction. For example, after the end-user authenticates with the authorization server. Not all client types use redirect URIs.

Your app's registration also holds information about the authentication and authorization endpoints you'll use in your code to get ID and access tokens.

I hope this helps, let me know if you run into any other problems!

[timheuer]

@gal42 unfortunately I don't think this is enough in the README to get started. At least for me it wasn't. I've not been able to run the sample app given the instructions. Specifically one of the instructions is to deploy an Azure backend, but there is no backend for this sample, and none needed as far as I can tell...only the auth resources/flow. So that instruction is confusing.

I get the app/client ID and put it in, but that isn't enough for the sample and it fails...likely due to:

https://github.com/rachelkang/AuthenticationSamples/blob/main/AuthenticationSimpleSample/AuthenticationSimpleSample/Auth/Constants.cs#L17-L22

needing to be modified as well, but there is no information on the README to help me understand what I need to change there, etc.

If the intent is that the user can get started on these samples with looking at the README, more explicit instructions are needed I believe...not just links out to the more generic instructions which may lead to copying wrong values in wrong places (or missing values).