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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Managing identity


Now we're ready to run our app and let users log in through Facebook login or Google login mechanisms.

Both Facebook and Google return the ProviderKey property to identify an individual user. We can hold that info in the database and relate it to another table (such as ShoppingCart, PurchaseHistory, and so on.) This way, we can let Facebook and Google manage users, but we can still reference that user in our database system.

The beauty of ASP.NET Core Identity is that we can easily plug another system into it (such as Linkedin, Microsoft Live, GitHub, Auth0, and so on). It's only adding a library and creating an app in the authorization server system. In ASP.NET Core, we can create an empty project and turn it into a fully fledged application with identity capabilities.

Microsoft published the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity NuGet package (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity/) to help developers create authentication and authorization mechanisms easily...