Monthly Archives: June 2017

Using Protobuf Media Formatters with ASP.NET Core

June 30, 2017 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, dotnet · 10 Comments

This article shows how to use Protobuf with an ASP.NET Core MVC application. The API uses the WebApiContrib.Core.Formatter.Protobuf Nuget package to add support for Protobuf. This package uses the protobuf-net Nuget package from Marc Gravell, which makes it really easy to use a really fast serializer, deserializer for your APIs. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreWebApiContribProtobufSample History 2019-09-23 Updated […]

Angular OIDC OAuth2 client with Google Identity Platform

June 16, 2017 · by · in angular, Security · 23 Comments

This article shows how an Angular client could implement a login for a SPA application using Google Identity Platform OpenID. The Angular application uses the npm package angular-auth-oidc-client to implement the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow to connect with the google identity platform. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/angular-auth-oidc-sample-google-openid History 2020-05-03 Updated to OIDC lib version 11.0.0, Angular 9.1.4, ASP.NET […]

angular-auth-oidc-client Release, an OpenID Implicit Flow client in Angular

June 14, 2017 · by · in angular, Security · 22 Comments

I have been blogging and writing code for Angular and OpenID Connect since Nov 1, 2015. Now after all this time, I have decided to create my first npm package for Angular: angular-auth-oidc-client, which makes it easier to use the Angular Auth OpenID client. This is now available on npm. npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-auth-oidc-client github code: […]

OpenID Connect Session Management using an Angular application and IdentityServer4

June 11, 2017 · by · in angular, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, Security · 5 Comments

The article shows how the OpenID Connect Session Management can be implemented in an Angular application. The OpenID Connect Session Management 1.0 provides a way of monitoring the user session on the server using iframes. IdentityServer4 implements the server side of the specification. This does not monitor the lifecycle of the tokens used in the […]

Implementing a silent token renew in Angular for the OpenID Connect Implicit flow

June 2, 2017 · by · in .NET Core, angular, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, OAuth2, Security · 10 Comments

This article shows how to implement a silent token renew in Angular using IdentityServer4 as the security token service server. The SPA Angular client implements the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow ‘id_token token’. When the id_token expires, the client requests new tokens from the server, so that the user does not need to authorise again. Code: […]