How to programmatically login to Windows through credential provider?

Question

Microsoft

Hello. I need to teach a program to log into Windows. Previously, I had nothing to do with this, so I googled for a long time. As a result, I realized that just winapi won’t work here and I need to make a credential provider. Found Microsoft samples from msdn, installed. It worked, new tiles appeared in the login window, as in the example:

But I have no idea what's next. How do I now login from the code, when I have a simple credential provider, how can I use it? Knowledgeable people, please explain.

Answer 1

Call the credential->Initialize(...) method from the provider