Web Application – Azure AD Single Sign On Previously I’ve used Azure AD to authenticate web application users as well as to retrieve authentication tokens for accessing Azure resources but I hadn’t tried retrieving tokens during the initial login before. It turns out that this was much trickier than I’d Read more…
Azure AD – Request Too Long I’ve been getting to grips with Azure AD authentication an part of that has involved retrieving access codes for Power BI at initial login to an authenticated web application. When I finally managed to get this working I then started getting the following error. Read more…
Empty Sessions in Azure Web Applications As part of a recent project I needed to embed a Power BI Dashboard in a webpage, in order to authenticate access to this dashboard Azure AD authentication was used, this directs the user to the standard Microsoft login and they are then redirected Read more…
Azure Web App Deployment ERROR_FILE_IN_USE When publishing a .NET Core 2.0 Web App to Azure from Visual Studio 2017 the initial few deployments seem to work as expected but after a while they often start failing with the message ERROR_FILE_IN_USE. There’s a few proposed solutions for this, the initial one Read more…
Azure Active Directory Authentication in Web Applications I’ve previously used “Individual User Accounts” authentication for authenticating users in web applications but as the management of users in the underlying SQL databases isn’t that simple it seemed that using Azure Active Directory to manage users might be a better option. The Read more…
When upgrading NuGet packages in an ASP.NET Core project I get a runtime target error. Whenever I create a new project in Visual Studio 2015 one of the first things I do is go and upgrade all of the included NuGet packages. When creating an ASP.NET Core Web Application one Read more…