Null Parent Window Handler Issue for AzureAuth Library

Null Parent Window Handler Issue for AzureAuth Library Background AzureAuth-Lib is a thin wrapper on top of microsoft-authentication-cli, which is a CLI wrapper of MSAL. These CLI tools are heavily used by developers. Starting from September 2024, users reported an issue with the tool, stating that AzureAuth-Lib failed to acquire an access token due to a null reference exception. Here’s the error stack: [Verbose] MSAL.Desktop.4.54.1.0.MsalClientException: ErrorCode: window_handle_required Microsoft.Identity.Client.MsalClientException: A window handle must be configured. See https://aka.ms/msal-net-wam#parent-window-handles Error Code Deep-Dive But what does window_handle_required mean? ...

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Hugo Basics

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February 16, 2025