When I first heard that ASP.NET did role-based authorization, I was excited—until I found out that the only way to implement it was using Windows authentication. This requires all users and their ...

ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications. ASP.NET Identity is the latest in a series of frameworks that exist ...

When you need to integrate authorization with procedural code, you're going to need your application's ClaimsPrincipal object so that you can check the user's authorization claims. Here's both how to ...

When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...

Security is a major concern in web-based enterprise applications. When you need to transmit data over the wire, you should be aware of the various tools you can use to secure that data. ASP.Net Web ...

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