Tag Archives: aspnetcore
Using multi-tenant AAD delegated APIs from different tenants
This post looks at implementing and using Azure AD multiple tenant applications from different tenants. A service principal needs to be created for the tenant using the multi-tenant API and consent needs to be given for the API scope. The API will accept tokens from different issuers which need to be validated. It is important […]
Implement Feature Management in Blazor ASP.NET Core
The post shows how features toggles or feature switches can be implemented in an ASP.NET Core application using Blazor. The Microsoft.FeatureManagement Nuget package is used to add the feature toggles. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreFeatures.Toggles Setup The Blazor application is a simple ASP.NET core hosted application using Azure AD for the identity provider. Both the Server and the […]
Sharing Microsoft Graph permissions and solution Azure App Registrations
This article looks at using Microsoft Graph permissions in Azure App registrations and whether you should use Graph in specific Azure App registrations types and if it is ok to expose these with other scopes and roles. Is it ok to expose Graph permissions in public Azure App registrations? Using Graph with public applications As […]
Switch tenants in an ASP.NET Core app using Azure AD with multi tenants
This article shows how to switch between tenants in an ASP.NET Core multi-tenant application using a multi-tenant Azure App registration to implement the identity provider. Azure roles are added to the Azure App registration and this can be used in the separate enterprise applications created from the multi-tenant Azure App registration to assign users and […]
Implement a GRPC API with OpenIddict and the OAuth client credentials flow
This post shows how to implement a GRPC service implemented in an ASP.NET Core kestrel hosted service. The GRPC service is protected using an access token. The client application uses the OAuth2 client credentials flow with introspection and the reference token is used to get access to the GRPC service. The GRPC API uses introspection […]
Add Fido2 MFA to an OpenIddict identity provider using ASP.NET Core Identity
This article shows how to add Fido2 multi-factor authentication to an OpenID Connect identity provider using OpenIddict and ASP.NET Core Identity. OpenIddict implements the OpenID Connect standards and ASP.NET Core Identity is used for the user accounting and persistence of the identities. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreOpeniddict I began by creating an OpenIddict web application using ASP.NET Core […]
Using multiple Azure B2C user flows from ASP.NET Core
This article shows how to use multiple Azure B2C user flows from a single ASP.NET Core application. Microsoft.Identity.Web is used to implement the authentication in the client. This is not so easy to implement with multiple schemes as the user flow policy is used in most client URLs and the Microsoft.Identity.Web package overrides an lot […]
ASP.NET Core scheduling with Quartz.NET and SignalR monitoring
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 […]
Using Azure security groups in ASP.NET Core with an Azure B2C Identity Provider
This article shows how to implement authorization in an ASP.NET Core application which uses Azure security groups for the user definitions and Azure B2C to authenticate. Microsoft Graph API is used to access the Azure group definitions for the signed in user. The client credentials flow is used to authorize the Graph API client with […]
Improving application security in Blazor using HTTP headers – Part 2
This article shows how to improve the security of an ASP.NET Core Blazor application by adding security headers to all HTTP Razor Page responses (Blazor WASM hosted in a ASP.NET Core hosted backend). The security headers are added using the NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders Nuget package from Andrew Lock. The headers are used to protect the session, not […]
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