Monthly Archives: June 2012

Managing ASP.NET Membership and Roles without Visual Studio

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Dominick Baier

I made a conscious decision to not include any user management features in IdentityServer. It’s a token service. In addition it is based (at least by default) on the standard ASP.NET membership, roles and profile features. So there should be … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET, IdentityServer | 9 Comments

CORS support in WebAPI, MVC and IIS with Thinktecture.IdentityModel

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Dominick Baier

Brock has added a really nice implementation of CORS to Thinktecture.IdentityModel (both 4.0 and 4.5). Here are all the details.

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Session Token JavaScript Sample for Thinktecture.IdentityModel and Web API

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Dominick Baier

Christian has added a new JavaScript sample that shows how to use the session token mechanism. It includes persisting the session token in local storage. Nice! github

Posted in IdentityModel, WebAPI | 17 Comments

Update on Thinktecture.IdentityServer for .NET 4.5

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Dominick Baier

I made some progress on the 4.5 version. It is now a real .NET 4.5/MVC 4 application and I made some minor changes to data handling: Switched to the new universal providers for ASP.NET Switched to SQL Server LocalDB as … Continue reading →

Posted in IdentityModel, IdentityServer, WebAPI | 15 Comments

New unified Nuget Package for Thinktecture.IdentityModel

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dominick Baier

I uploaded a Nuget package for Thinktecture.IdentityModel that contains both the 4.0 and 4.5 versions. That should make it easier. We will try to keep both framework versions as closely in sync as possible.

Posted in IdentityModel, WebAPI | 16 Comments

Important: Setting the Client Principal in ASP.NET Web API

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dominick Baier

Due to some unfortunate mechanisms buried deep in ASP.NET, setting Thread.CurrentPrincipal in Web API web hosting is not enough. When hosting in ASP.NET, Thread.CurrentPrincipal might get overridden with HttpContext.Current.User when creating new threads. This means you have to set the … Continue reading →

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Extending Authorization in ASP.NET Web API – Part 1: Basics

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dominick Baier

From my last post you can maybe tell that I prefer to keep my business and authorization logic separate. I am also not a huge fan of annotating my façade with role requirements like the [Authorize] attribute does. In this … Continue reading →

Posted in IdentityModel, WebAPI | 3 Comments

Thread.CurrentPrincipal and Propagation to new Threads

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dominick Baier

I often get questions about this. Here’s an interesting post about the so called “Execution Context” in .NET: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2012/06/15/executioncontext-vs-synchronizationcontext.aspx

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Approaches to (Server-side) Authorization

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Dominick Baier

Authorization is a difficult topic. The implementation is typically so application/developer specific, that when you ask ten people how they do it, you most likely get ten different answers. I think this is also the reason why .NET does not … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET Security, IdentityModel, WebAPI | 9 Comments

Taking Control over Azure Access Control Service HRD (without the Help from jQuery)

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dominick Baier

Vittorio wrote a post earlier today showing how to fetch the identity provider feed from ACS and use it to drive the sign-in handshake from within your application and UI. This is indeed a very useful (and user friendly) approach. … Continue reading →

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