Setting Up Authentication

In order to connect to an Vonage Video session, the client will need access to some authentication credentials — an API key, session ID, and token. In a production application, these credentials should be generated by a Server SDKs, but to speed things up we will hard code the values for now:

1. In the MainWindow class, add some static variables to store the API key, session ID, and token. We'll also add some constants for our log message identifier and permissions:

public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public const string API_KEY = "";
        public const string SESSION_ID = "";
        public const string TOKEN = "";

2. Adjust the code by hard coding the values for the API_KEY, SESSION_ID and TOKEN. To do this, log into your Video API account, either create a new Vonage Video API project or use an existing Vonage Video API project, then go to your project page and scroll down to the Project Tools section. From there, you can generate a session ID and token manually. Use the project’s API key along with the session ID and token you generated.

Important: You can continue to get the session ID and token values from your Account during testing and development, but before you go into production you must set up a server.

For more information on sessions, tokens, and servers, check out Video API Basics.