find a better way to store API keys

[mikeantonacci]

That Resources.resw file is really intended for storing strings for localization purposes, using it this way is kind of a hack. It's not clear what the correct/standard way to do this is...

[RitwikGupta]

So we're supposed to obfuscate and encrypt the key to store it as a string in the app because it can easily be disassembled

[mikeantonacci]

Yeah, that's the other (and more important) problem, even when I grepped for the keys in the project folder to make sure I wasn't committing them I saw them in some binary files in the Debug directory...it's an ugly temporary solution so that I could get the keys out of the source code and get something on GitHub faster.

[RitwikGupta]

Did you .gitignore those files?

[mikeantonacci]

Visual Studio generates a .gitignore by default that includes those build directories and a bunch of other IDE generated nonsense, so they were ignored already.

[epicstar]

May not find a better way so if we still see this open and we're ready to release, let's close this issue or move it to another milestone