I’ve used Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and authorization in a variety of Web Apps for logins, calling external APIs (e.g. Graph API) and authorizing site area access and while authentication is reasonably simple to get working authorization has always been a bit more confusing. This is fair enough as … Read more
IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core which acts as a middleware layer for managing authentication and authorization. Configuration data for the IdentityServer4 service can be persisted in a variety of storage mediums including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL and if you want to … Read more
It’s easy enough to send messages to an Event Hub using the EventHubs NuGet package as specified here, but if you want to test it by making you’re own HTTP POST requests to the endpoint then it becomes a bit trickier. There’s some Microsoft documentation here about manually sending HTTP … Read more
The ability to create your own middleware comes in pretty handy when creating MVC 6 APIs as it allows the inspection and processing of the requests/responses flowing into and out of the application. A few of the most useful ones I’ve used are below, a good guide to using middleware … Read more