Cookies set through the Owin API sometimes mysteriously disappear. The problem is that deep within System.Web, there has been a cookie monster sleeping since the dawn of time (well, at least since .NET and System.Web was released). The monster has been sleeping for all this time, but now, with the new times arriving with Owin,… Continue reading Catching the System.Web/Owin Cookie Monster
Using Owin External Login without ASP.NET Identity
ASP.NET MVC5 has excellent support for external social login providers (Google, Facebook, Twitter) integrating with the ASP.NET Identity system. But what if we want to use external logins directly without going through ASP.NET Identity? Using external logins together with ASP.NET Identity is very simple to get started with, but it requires all users to register… Continue reading Using Owin External Login without ASP.NET Identity
Kentor.AuthServices 0.9.0 SAML2 for ASP.NET Released
The Kentor.AuthServices SAML2 Service Provider has got one important improvement for simplified operations: automatic metadata refresh. Identity providers and federations configured by loading metadata are now automatically refreshed based on the cache duration settings in the received metadata. Especially for federation setups this significantly simplifies the operations. When new identity providers are added to the… Continue reading Kentor.AuthServices 0.9.0 SAML2 for ASP.NET Released
Solving the set Startup Projects bug in Visual Studio
This is a guest post by Albin Sunnanbo sharing how a mysterious Visual Studio problem made the Set Startup project command fail. In one of our projects at work we had this mysterious problem with Visual Studio, both 2012 and 2013. It happened to some developers and some machines. When I got a new computer… Continue reading Solving the set Startup Projects bug in Visual Studio
Kentor.AuthServices 0.8.0 SAML2 for ASP.NET Released
We continue to improve the Kentor.AuthServices SAML2 Service Provider for ASP.NET with the release of version 0.8.0. With this release the entire configuration system has been rebuilt, to enable configuration from other sources than the config file. This is good news for anyone thinking of integrating Kentor AuthServices in an application where configuration is offered… Continue reading Kentor.AuthServices 0.8.0 SAML2 for ASP.NET Released