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• ASP.NET Core Identity Series – Two Factor Authentication

  By Christos S. on August 18, 2019 • ( 7 )

  

  Two-Factor Authentication is an additional security layer used to address the vulnerabilities of a standard password-only approach. All popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or DropBox recommend their users to enable the feature and prevent unauthorized access to their… Read More ›

• ASP.NET Core Identity Series – External provider authentication & registration strategy

  By Christos S. on July 28, 2019 • ( 6 )

  

  There is no doubt that external provider authentication is a must have feature in new modern applications and makes sense because users are able to easily register new accounts and also login using their social account credentials. The entire process… Read More ›

• ASP.NET Core Identity Series – OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect & IdentityServer

  By Christos S. on March 11, 2019 • ( 24 )

  

  As the web evolved over the years it proved that the traditional security options and mechanics such as client-server authentication, had several limitations and couldn’t cover (at least properly) the cases introduced by the evolution. Take for example the case… Read More ›

• Azure Functions Proxies in Action

  By Christos S. on February 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Azure Functions Proxies is serverless API toolkit that basically allows you to modify the requests and responses of your APIs. This feature might sounds a little bit simple but it’s not. With AF Proxies you can expose your multiple Azure… Read More ›

• Building serverless apps with Azure Functions

  By Christos S. on November 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As the cloud evolves over the years, application architectures also adapt to changes resulting to new, modern and more flexible patterns of how we build applications today. One of the hottest patterns nowadays is the serverless architecture which is the… Read More ›

• Instant page rendering and seamless navigation for SPAs

  By Christos S. on October 9, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Single Page Applications SPAs nowadays are probably the latest trend when building web applications and this comes for two reasons: a) they offer a smoothless user experience with no page reloads and b) the existence of so many javascript frameworks… Read More ›

• Getting started with Azure Service Fabric

  By Christos S. on October 2, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  In case you are planning to build the new Facebook or Twitter you probably need to adopt a Microservice architecture that allows you to easily scale up to thousands of machines (Scalability) and be always-on having zero downtime during application… Read More ›

• ASP.NET Core Identity Series – Deep dive in Authorization

  By Christos S. on June 13, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Authorization in ASP.NET Core is the process that determines whether a user can or cannot access a specific resource. It’s not part of the ASP.NET Core Identity library but can be tightly connected to its underline structures such as Claims… Read More ›

• ASP.NET Core Identity Series – Integrating Entity Framework

  By Christos S. on May 11, 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  Microsoft.Extensions.Identity.Core is the minimum ASP.NET Core Identity package you need to install in order to get start working with the core functionality of the library. We have seen how to do this in the Getting Started part of these ASP.NET… Read More ›

• ASP.NET Core Identity Series – Getting Started

  By Christos S. on April 28, 2018 • ( 19 )

  

  ASP.NET Core Identity is Microsoft’s membership system widely known to .NET developers for managing application users. And by managing we mean everything that has to do with a user account such as creating one, login functionality (cookies, tokens, Multi-Factor Authentication,… Read More ›