ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

Take advantage of improved identity management in ASP.NET Core to implement identity-based authentication for minimal APIs quickly, easily, and with less code. Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core allow us to ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 support for claims-based security can make your existing authorization system more powerful and flexible, even if you never intend to start working with third-party ...