InteractiveBrowserCredential preference to use system browser or modal dialog

[thenextman]

Library name

Azure.Identity

Please describe the feature.

The documentation for InteractiveBrowserCredential says (emphasis mine):

launches the system default browser to interactively authenticate a user

In my experience, if my Windows desktop application targets .NET 6 the system browser is launched. However if we target .NET 4.8, a modal popup is shown with an embedded browser.

Using the system browser is (in my case) a better user experience, and from a cursory look it seems like this is an option in MSAL. Is it possible to get this choice exposed via the InteractiveBrowserCredentialOptions (or otherwise)?

[jsquire]

//cc: @christothes

[jsquire]

Thank you for your feedback. Tagging and routing to the team member best able to assist.

[thenextman]

The samples get us part of the way there, but ultimately it becomes necessary to reproduce much of the behaviour of the existing InteractiveBrowserCredential and MSAL public client to affect what is really a one-line change (adding the WithUseEmbeddedWebView call when getting interactive credentials).

I understand that MSAL is an implementation detail but my feeling is this would be a useful and relevant option for InteractiveBrowserCredentials. For certain classes of application, the system browser is far superior to using the embedded one.