After waiting for some time, I was happy when ASP.NET Core RC2 was recently released. This version should have debuted at the beginning of 2016, so imagine my anticipation and excitement to install it on my Linux machine and upgrade my project to this version. To install this version of ASP.NET Core I started on this page and then I chose Linux -> Ubuntu 14.04. I followed the step-by-step instructions provided and after a while I could run the command dotnet -h in my terminal, and I saw this: Now I could start to upgrade my project.…
In this post, I am going to continue my series about IdenityServer4. I will write about forcing IdentityServer to use Google as an external identity token provider. Before I started, I had to register the application that will interact with Google which in my case is IdSrvHost. I am going to reuse the application that I registered in this post. However, I altered the configuration of this application a bit by enabling access to Google+ API.…
This is a short post to complement my post about
the configuration in ASP .NET Core.
I’ll write about how to add secret settings to your application. ASP .NET Core created a new concept to deal with this. The first thing I did was to add this to the dependencies in project.json:…
In the previous post, I wrote about how to get tokens from IdentityServer using a javascript client. In this post, I am going to write about how to use this token to get access to protected resources from a sample API. As in the previous post, to achieve my goal, I used samples provided on the github repository. In this repo folder I found a sample API which I copied into my local repository.…
I wrote in one of previous posts about my experiments with Google Identity Provider and Implicit Flow to get access tokens which allow me to fetch resources from API. I didn’t mention IdentityServer IdentityServer in these posts, which is becoming the default choice if you want to create an identity provider in ASP .NET. I did this deliberately because I had some experiences with IdentityServer 3 and I wanted to try something new.…
ASP .NET Core brings with it a lot of new things and concepts to the Web development on .NET framework. One of them is the new way to configure your application. In this post, I will look at the possibilities we have in this area. In the previous version of ASP .NET you used file Web.config to configure your application. Now you have more options: you can use json, ini, xml and you can even easily use environment variables to configure your app.…
In the previous post, I wrote about accessing a protected API controller being authenticated with id tokens obtained from Google. I created my application on Windows in Visual Studio because I needed the helping hand of dotPeek to see what was going on inside code that is not mine. In this post, I’ll write what happened when I ran this application on Ubuntu. After I pulled my project from github, I restored all packages using dnu restore and I ran the application.…
In previous posts I wrote about getting id tokens and access tokens from Google Identity Provider. To do this I used the library oidc-token-manager. You can read here and here how I prepared config for this library in order to have a working authentication of a user in Google Identity Provider. I stated that my solution isn’t perfect and actually I treated it as a temporary one. In this post, I’ll write about using tokens fetched from Google to access my sample API.…
In the last post, I wrote how I prepared my application to be ready for publishing. In this post, I am going to write about how I published my application to Azure. I believe that my client should see the results of my work as quickly as possible. For my project, I only have an Imaginary Client but imaginary or not they also deserve respect. To publish my application to Azure, I went through following steps.…
I have been dealing with my project for a while and I haven’t shown anything to my Imaginary Client. They are starting to think that I haven’t done anything but burn their Imaginary Money. But I have done something. I have written posts, I have done research and I have learned a lot new things. To convince my Imaginary Client that I haven’t wasted their Imaginary Money I should quickly deploy something to production but before I do this I should tune my application a bit.…
