Category ASPNET5

Require user password verification with ASP.NET Core Identity to access Razor Page

This post shows how an ASP.NET Core application which uses ASP.NET Core Identity to authenticate and authorize users of the application can be used to require user password verification to view specific Razor pages in the application. If the user opens one of the Razor pages which require a password verification to open the page, […]

Secure Azure AD User File Upload with Azure AD Storage and ASP.NET Core

This post shows how files can be uploaded to Azure blob storage using ASP.NET Core in a secure way using OAuth and Open ID Connect. Azure AD is used to authenticate the users. The uploaded file descriptions are saved to an SQL database using EF Core so that listing or searching files can be implemented […]

Protecting legacy APIs with an ASP.NET Core Yarp reverse proxy and Azure AD OAuth

This article shows how a legacy API could be protected using an ASP.NET Core Yarp reverse proxy and Azure AD OAuth. The security is implemented using Azure AD and Microsoft.Identity.Web. Sometimes it is not possible to update an existing or old API within a reasonable price and the financially best way to use it in […]

Using multiple APIs in Blazor with Azure AD authentication

The post shows how to create a Blazor application which is hosted in an ASP.NET Core application and provides a public API which uses multiple downstream APIs. Both the Blazor client and the Blazor API are protected by Azure AD authentication. The Blazor UI Client is protected like any single page application. This is a […]

Using multiple APIs in Angular and ASP.NET Core with Azure AD authentication

This article shows how an Angular application could be used to access many APIs in a secure way. An API is created specifically for the Angular UI and the further APIs can only be access from the trusted backend which is under our control. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AzureADAuthRazorUiServiceApiCertificate Posts in this series Implement Azure AD Client credentials […]

Securing an ASP.NET Core API which uses multiple access tokens

This post shows how an ASP.NET Core API can authorize API calls which use different access tokens from different identity providers or different access tokens from the same identity provider but created for different clients and containing different claims. The access tokens are validated using JWT Bearer authentication as well as an authorization policy which […]

Implement a Blazor full text search using Azure Cognitive Search

This article shows how to implement a full text search in Blazor using Azure Cognitive Search. The search results are returned using paging and the search index can be created, deleted from a Blazor application. 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 […]

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

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 […]

Implement Azure AD Client credentials flow using Client Certificates for service APIs

This post shows how to implement an Azure 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 and validated […]