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Littlepage's avatar
Littlepage
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Can't get Oauth to work... please help

Question or Issue I'm a little frustrated with the poor examples of dropbox... :-( I'm trying to start with Oauth, I'm trying to build a c# console app that will run for hours, since the tokens exp...
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Littlepage's avatar
Littlepage
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

The problem starts on the way we call the new browser window to open... here's the correct code:

// Corrected Process.Start usage

var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
    FileName = authorizeUri.ToString(),
    UseShellExecute = true
};
Process.Start(processStartInfo);

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DB-Des
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3 months ago

Hi Littlepage​ 

Thank you for that additional information.

I am still unable to replicate the error you originally reported: Missing client_id.

The full code you provided works without issues on my end.

Are you able to share the full authorization URL that your program is generating? Since you are logging it: Console.WriteLine("authorizeUri: " + authorizeUri.ToString());

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