C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

Capabilities

UWP applications are distributed as trusted applications. What that means is that anything they do must be clear; that is, you need to tell the application what you need access to and what you need permission for. This is not related to identity permissions, but we need to tell the application that it can access localhost (obviously, only while we're in development), that we can use a certificate, and so on. This is all achieved in the Package.appxmanifest file. If you simply double-click on it in Visual Studio, you'll be given a user interface that allows you to select assets, capabilities, declarations, and more; it's beyond the scope of this chapter to discuss everything that is found here, but you will need to add three capabilities: ...