In my previous post on configuring ASP.NET Core applications in Service Fabric I gave an example of how you could set a correct web host environment which allows you to adjust configuration and behavior of various components based on the current environment (staging, production, etc). »
It's been a couple of months since I introduced Experimental Tools extension for Visual Studio 2015 and above. While the 2017 version is being cooked and I've decided to make a quick tour of the features that have been added to it over this time. »
ASP.NET Core provides a flexible configuration infrastructure that supports multiple configuration sources from flat files to environment variables to whatever you can imagine as it's easy to create a provider for a new source... »
It's all about change. Business wants to try out things and back off on unsuccessful attempts as soon as possible to minimize loss. Customers expect software to constantly evolve and better solve their problems. And developers want to be able to incrementally make changes to the system... »
Recently I've started working on a new pet project called Experimental Tools. The idea is to build a Visual Studio extension that provides a number of useful refactorings, code analyzers and fixes that make our everyday work more enjoyable by removing common chores when writing code. »
We've seen how various OAuth2 flows allow clients to get delegated access to resources on behalf of the users who own the resources. Modern software is built more and more with distributed architecture in mind and service to service communication is a common scenario and when it comes to security... »
Azure AD is a multitenant directory and it comes as no surprise that it supports scenarios of applications defined in one tenant to be accessible by users from other tenants (directories). In this post we're going to look at... »
So far we've been looking at corporate or organizational accounts in context of working with Azure AD. But for customer facing applications it's important to provide a way for users to register themselves and use their existing social accounts to authenticate with your applications. »
Last week on June'21 we've had another meet-up event of our local Azure User Group where people interested in learning how Azure can help them build great solutions of tomorrow share their experience and adventures. This time around we talked about Azure Active Directory and efficient file storage. »
Last time we had a look at the canonical OAuth2 Authorization Grant and tested it with ASP.NET Cored based API and web applications. This time let's have a look at the user identity side of the story and the OpenID Connect protocol that reveals the identity to client applications. »