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Understanding OWIN Forms authentication in MVC 5

July 3, 2013 Jul 3, 2013 07/3/13

Hongye Sun - MSFT

Overview The new security feature design for MVC 5 is based on OWIN authentication middleware. The benefit for it is that security feature can be shared by other components that can be hosted on OWIN. Since the Katana team did a great effort to support the OWIN integrated pipeline in ASP.NET, it can also secure apps hosted on IIS, including ...

Introducing ASP.NET Identity – A membership system for ASP.NET applications

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

pranav rastogi

ASP.NET Identity is the new membership system for building ASP.NET web applications. ASP.NET Identity allows you to add login features to your application and makes it easy to customize data about the logged in user. [Update] Please visit  ASP.NET Identity for getting the latest information about ASP.NET Identity project and ...

Adding External Logins to your ASP.NET application in Visual Studio 2013

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13

pranav rastogi

The project templates showcase a way of logging in with external login providers, along with the normal way of logging in by creating a local account This post highlights how you can turn on support for logging through these services in the ASP.NET project templates that shipped with Visual Studio 2013 Preview. To learn more about how ...

ASP.NET updates to support Windows Azure Active Directory

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

Today we released an update to the Visual Studio **2013 Preview **which enables you to create ASP.NET applications which use Windows Azure Active Directory for authentication. In this post I will describe; how you can get the additional support, where to find more info and a list of known issues. How to get the latest support In order to ...