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C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

By : Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer
Book Image

C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

By: Paul Michaels, Dirk Strauss, Jas Rademeyer

Overview of this book

.NET Core is a general-purpose, modular, cross-platform, and opensource implementation of .NET. The latest release of .NET Core 3 comes with improved performance and security features, along with support for desktop applications. .NET Core 3 is not only useful for new developers looking to start learning the framework, but also for legacy developers interested in migrating their apps. Updated with the latest features and enhancements, this updated second edition is a step-by-step, project-based guide. The book starts with a brief introduction to the key features of C# 8 and .NET Core 3. You'll learn to work with relational data using Entity Framework Core 3, before understanding how to use ASP.NET Core. As you progress, you’ll discover how you can use .NET Core to create cross-platform applications. Later, the book will show you how to upgrade your old WinForms apps to .NET Core 3. The concluding chapters will then help you use SignalR effectively to add real-time functionality to your applications, before demonstrating how to implement MongoDB in your apps. Finally, you'll delve into serverless computing and how to build microservices using Docker and Kubernetes. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in developing applications using .NET Core 3.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

IdentityServer 4

As we mentioned earlier, IdentityServer is not a pre-built service, but a framework. Such services do exist Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, and so on all provide pre-built services that you can simply call and get an identity back. IdentityServer is much more of a roll your own solution.

It's worth considering why you might choose to roll your own in this manner. In our example here, one of the requirements is offline access, so that does weight the argument you can't authenticate using Facebook if you're not online. It's also worth considering whether you would want to outsource the authentication of your users to a third party. I'm not saying for a minute that these aren't reliable, secure services, but they are run by companies. If you build your entire application around Facebook authentication and they...