Tag Archives: dotnet
Using Hangfire with ASP.NET Core
This article looks at setting up Hangfire with ASP.NET Core and an SQL server. Hangfire provides a solution to run recurring jobs and background jobs with an excellent dashboard to monitor the events. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHangfire History 2023-02-21 Fix Delete background job to delete recurring job, feedback from Alex The ASP.NET Core application uses two Hangfire […]
Use multiple identity providers from a Blazor WASM ASP.NET Core App secured using BFF
This post shows how to implement a Blazor WASM UI hosted in an ASP.NET Core application using multiple identity providers to authenticate. Two confidential OpenID Connect code flow clients with PKCE are used to implement the Blazor authentication. The Blazor WASM and the ASP.NET Core application are a single security context. This is implemented using […]
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 the On Behalf Of flow between an Azure AD protected API and an API protected using OpenIddict
This article shows how to implement the On Behalf Of flow between two APIs, one using Azure AD to authorize the HTTP requests and a second API protected using OpenIddict. The Azure AD protected API uses the On Behalf Of flow (OBO) to get a new OpenIddict delegated access token using the AAD delegated access […]
ASP.NET Core Api Auth with multiple Identity Providers
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core API can be secured using multiple access tokens from different identity providers. ASP.NET Core schemes and policies can be used to set this up. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreApiAuthMultiIdentityProvider History 2023-04-29 Updated packages and revert to default JWT authorization packages due to errors on update. The ASP.NET Core API has a […]
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 […]
Creating dotnet solution and project templates
This article should how to create and deploy dotnet templates which can be used from the dotnet CLI or from Visual Studio. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Blazor.BFF.OpenIDConnect.Template Folder Structure The template folder structure is important when creating dotnet templates. The .template.config must be created inside the content folder. This folder has a template.json file and an icon.png image […]
Onboarding new users in an ASP.NET Core application using Azure B2C
This article shows how to onboard new users into your ASP.NET Core application using Azure B2C as the identity provider and the account management. The software has application specific persisted user data and this user data needs to be connected to the identity data from the corresponding user in Azure B2C. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/azureb2c-fed-microsoft-entra-id History 2024-01-02 […]
Secure a Blazor WASM ASP.NET Core hosted APP using BFF and OpenIddict
This article shows how to implement authentication and secure a Blazor WASM application hosted in ASP.NET Core using the backend for frontend (BFF) security architecture to authenticate. All security is implemented in the backend and the Blazor WASM is a view of the ASP.NET Core application, no security is implemented in the public client. The […]
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