Monthly Archives: October 2020

Using Azure Cognitive Search Suggesters in ASP.NET Core and Autocomplete

October 29, 2020 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Lucene · 4 Comments

This post shows how to implement an autocomplete in an ASP.NET Core Razor Page using Azure Cognitive Search Suggesters. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAzureSearch Posts in this series Implement a full text search using Azure Cognitive Search in ASP.NET Core Using Azure Cognitive Search Suggesters in ASP.NET Core and Autocomplete Implement a Blazor full text search using Azure […]

Using encrypted access tokens in Azure with Microsoft.Identity.Web and Azure App registrations

October 22, 2020 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Azure Key Vault · 1 Comment

This post shows how to use encrypted access tokens with Microsoft Entra ID App registrations using Microsoft.Identity.Web. By using encrypted access tokens, only applications with access to the private key can decrypt the tokens. When using encrypted tokens, you can prevent access tokens data being used or read by such tools as https://jwt.ms or https://jwt.io […]

Implement a full text search using Azure Cognitive Search in ASP.NET Core

October 19, 2020 · by · in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, Azure, Azure Cognitive Search, Lucene · 1 Comment

This article shows how to implement a full text search in ASP.NET Core using Azure Cognitive Search. The search results are returned using paging and the search index can be created, deleted from an ASP.NET Core Razor Page UI. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAzureSearch Posts in this series Implement a full text search using Azure Cognitive Search in […]

Using Key Vault certificates with Microsoft.Identity.Web and ASP.NET Core applications

October 9, 2020 · by · in .NET Core, App Service, Azure, Azure functions, Azure Key Vault, OAuth2, Security · 5 Comments

This post shows how Azure Key Vault certificates can be used with Microsoft.Identity.Web in an ASP.NET Core application which requires a downstream “access_as_user” API. The Microsoft Entra ID App Registrations requires a certificate instead of a client secret. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/MicrosoftEntraIDAuthMicrosoftIdentityWeb Posts in this series History 2023-11-28 Updated to .NET 8 Creating the Key Vault certificates […]

Implement Microsoft Entra ID Client credentials flow using Client Certificates for service APIs

October 1, 2020 · by · in App Service, ASP.NET Core, ASPNET5, Azure Key Vault · 6 Comments

This post shows how to implement an Microsoft Entra ID client credential flows to access an API for a service-to-service connection. No user is involved in this flow. A client certificate (Private Key JWT authentication) is used to get the access token and the token is used to access the API which is then used […]