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stevenamani
Advocate II
Advocate II

Code Hanging on Acquire Token

I am attempting to acquire a token from AzureAD in a native app and while this works fine on a number of computers, I have one where the application just hangs. Here is the code:

 

public async Task<string> GetTokenAAD()

        {

            //example https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/get-azuread-access-token

 

           var credential = new UserPasswordCredential(this.userName, this.password);

 

            var authenticationContext = new AuthenticationContext(Properties.Settings.Default.AADAUTH_URL);

 

 

            authenticationResult = await authenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync(resourceUrl, this.clientID, credential); //code hangs here

 

            if (authenticationResult != null)

            {

                return authenticationResult.AccessToken;

            }

 

            return string.Empty;

        }

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Turns out the issue was unrelated to PowerBI or Azure AD. The function was being called from a non-async function and I resolved it by adding ConfigureAwait(True) to the AcquiteTokenAsync call.

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v-micsh-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Could you please explain a bit for " application just hangs" ?

 

If it hangs in Windows, there should be application log generated for this event, please take a check under Event Viewer and see if any specific error message logged.

Further, for Windows Application hang, please check:

Extracting Information from Crash and Hang Dumps

 

Regards,

Michael

Turns out the issue was unrelated to PowerBI or Azure AD. The function was being called from a non-async function and I resolved it by adding ConfigureAwait(True) to the AcquiteTokenAsync call.

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