Monthly Archives: November 2021

Implement certificate authentication in ASP.NET Core for an Azure B2C API connector

November 22, 2021 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, App Service, ASP.NET Core, Azure, dotnet, Microsoft Entra External ID, Microsoft Entra ID · 4 Comments

This article shows how an ASP.NET Core API can be setup to require certificates for authentication. The API is used to implement an Azure B2C API connector service. The API connector client uses a certificate to request profile data from the Azure App Service API implementation, which is validated using the certificate thumbprint. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreB2cExtraClaims […]

Add extra claims to an Azure B2C user flow using API connectors and ASP.NET Core

November 15, 2021 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Microsoft Entra External ID, OAuth2, Security · 9 Comments

This post shows how to implement an ASP.NET Core Razor Page application which authenticates using Azure B2C and uses custom claims implemented using the Azure B2C API connector. The claims provider is implemented using an ASP.NET Core API application and the Azure API connector requests the data from this API. The Azure API connector adds […]

ASP.NET Core scheduling with Quartz.NET and SignalR monitoring

November 8, 2021 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, javascript · 6 Comments

This article shows how scheduled tasks can be implemented in ASP.NET Core using Quartz.NET and then displays the job info in an ASP.NET Core Razor page using SignalR. A concurrent job and a non concurrent job are implemented using a simple trigger to show the difference in how the jobs are run. Quartz.NET provides lots […]