Category MVC
Implement Azure AD Continuous Access in an ASP.NET Core Razor Page app using a Web API
This article shows how Azure AD continuous access (CA) can be used in an ASP.NET Core UI application to force MFA when using an administrator API from a separate ASP.NET Core application. Both applications are secured using Microsoft.Identity.Web. An ASP.NET Core Razor Page application is used to implement the UI application. The API is implemented […]
Securing Blazor Web assembly using cookies
The article shows how a Blazor web assembly UI hosted in an ASP.NET Core application can be secured using cookies. Azure AD is used as the identity provider and the Microsoft.Identity.Web Nuget package is used to secure the trusted server rendered application. The API calls are protected using the secure cookie and anti-forgery tokens to […]
Implement OAUTH Device Code Flow with Azure AD and ASP.NET Core
The post shows how the Device Code flow (RFC 8628) could be implemented in an ASP.NET Core web application which uses Azure AD as an identity provider. An Azure App registration is used to setup the client. This solution would be useful for input constrained devices which have a browser and need to authenticate identities. […]
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 Web APP and an ASP.NET Core Secure API using Azure AD which delegates to a second API
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core Web application can authenticate and access a downstream API using user access tokens and delegate to another API in Azure AD also using user access tokens. Microsoft.Identity.Web is used in all three applications to acquire the tokens for the Web API and the access tokens for the two […]
Retry Error Handling for Activities and Orchestrations in Azure Durable Functions
Azure Durable Functions provides a rich set of Error Handling APIs. This post shows how Activities or Sub-Orchestrations can be re-run with the different retry options. Activities in a workflow can call an API or run a code flow which might fail due to connection problems, network timeouts or other similar problems. If it was […]
Login and use an ASP.NET Core API with Azure AD Auth and user access tokens
In this blog post, Azure AD will be setup and used to authenticate and authorize an ASP.NET core Razor Page application which uses an API from a separate ASP.NET Core MVC project. User access tokens are used to access to API, so that an email can be used in the API. The API is not […]
Requiring MFA for Admin Pages in an ASP.NET Core Identity application
This article shows how MFA could be forced on users to access sensitive pages within an ASP.NET Core Identity application. This could be useful for applications where different levels of access exist for the different identities. For example, users might be able to view the profile data using a password login, but an administrator would […]
Send MFA signin requirement to OpenID Connect server using ASP.NET Core Identity and IdentityServer4
This post adds the custom ASP.NET Core Identity, IdentityServer4 logic to check for the “acr_values” and react if a client application requests MFA for authentication. The “acr_values” parameter is used to pass the mfa value from the client to the server in the authentication request. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi Blogs in this series Force ASP.NET Core OpenID […]
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