Adding custom claims in .NET Identity, through OWIN, or otherwise is pretty straight forward.
But, what if we want to step outside of, or augment, the OAuth flow?
Custom user-driven claims for OWIN Identity
posted on May 19, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, OWIN, Security
Microsoft LogParser
posted on May 15, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft, Testing, Web
Earlier today, after a system outage, I was sent a W3C IIS Log to take a look at.
After staring at this log for a few minutes in Notepad2, my eyes started to glaze over. Basically, staring at system or IIS logs with a text editor is useless if there are tons of events or requests.
I knew there are plenty of parsing tools out there for log analysis, and I had used some before. Unfortunately, I had none of these tools installed on my laptop. Googling quick lead me to a Microsoft tool called ‘LogParser’ that I had never heard of before.
Moving an Entity Framework Code First Database and Appication to Azure
posted on May 15, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Azure, Database, Entity Framework, Microsoft
I’m still playing with Azure and getting a full fledged application working and hosted using the Azure services. As I showed yesterday, setting up a Web App is pretty easy.
The next step for me involves moving an Entity Framework Database using Migrations to Azure.
Getting started with Azure Web App hosting
posted on May 14, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Azure, Microsoft
With all of the hoopla lately about Azure, I have been playing with it, and Application Insights, for the past few weeks.
One thing that I hadn’t really delved into is its .NET Web App hosting. As an MSDN subscriber, many of the cloud services are offered in some form of free capacities. This includes Web App and Azure SQL hosting.
Exploring Node.js
posted on May 13, 2015 by long2know in JavaScript, Microsoft, Web
After Ignite, and especially after viewing the the latest features of VS2015 RC, ASP.NET 5.0, and .NET Core 5.0, my interest in Node.js was finally piqued. Admittedly, I had mostly ignored Node.js up to this point. As a primarily Angular/JavaScript developer, the aspect of using JavaScript for server-side is becoming increasing appealing.
Let me preface this by stating that I’m a noob when it comes to node. This really is my first time diving into its feature set.
For a brief history, Node.js is a runtime environment that uses the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine to execute JavaScript on a server. This also provides web hosting and other niceties to run both console apps and web-hosting apps. Spinning up, for example, an API through Node becomes a pretty straight-forward and powerful capability.
Microsoft Ignite Wrap-up
posted on May 8, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft, Web
Microsoft Ignite is coming to a close and it’s been a whirlwind week for me.
Overall, the material presented adhered to Microsoft’s agenda of touting Azure, its cloud, and IaaS/PaaS products. Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service are interesting, in and of themselves, but I find that most aren’t ready to jump in with both feet.
Microsoft Ignite Day Two
posted on May 5, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft
Another day of the Microsoft Ignite conference has passed. I felt more productive this day than I had during the first day. But, there have been bumps along the way.
I attended various sessions with topics ranging from Identity/Security to simple Angular/SPA apps to Microsoft’s new Threat Analysis tools.
Microsoft Ignite Day One
posted on May 4, 2015 by long2know in Microsoft
Day one of the Microsoft Ignite Conference is winding to a close (I have one more session to attend), and there have been some interesting ideologies, technologies, and products announced by Microsoft.
In no particular order, there were many announcements of interest to me.
Microsoft Application Insights
posted on April 30, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Azure, Testing
I’ve been watching the #build2015 conference online for the past couple of days. Microsoft has some nice, compelling product announcements.
One that caught my attention was Application Insights. So, I decided to give it a shot with an existing MVC + WebApi web application.
OWIN Authorization Code Grant (SSO)
posted on April 30, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, OWIN
After, mostly, getting the SSO / OAuth2 server setup with OWIN working over the past week, I ran into a few interesting scenarios and bits of information worth sharing.
The main scenario was in dealing with Authorization Code Grant across different domains and working that scenario into both the SSO paradigm and “protected Resource” server access.