I have a simple 2-page ASP.NET application that is hosted as a 'azure website'. I want to make this application secure by integrating with my company's ADFS. What is the simplest way to integrate this app with ADFS. I don't want to go through ACS if I don't have to. It looks like it is possible to make the asp.net app talk to adfs directly using WIF.
Can someone confirm if this will work and share any pointers to get this working?
You are spot-on about not considering ACS.
The simplest way is to just let the tooling in Visual Studio 2013 wire it up for you.
Create a new ASP.NET Web Application project and in the new project dialog, click on the Change Authentication button.
Next, select the Organizational Accounts radio button, choose On-Premises in the drop-down, and fill in your On-Premises Authority and App ID URI.
Vittorio blogged about the full experience here if you need more detail.
You will have to substitute in the correct URL's for your Azure Website, but this should get you going in the right direction.
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I have a basic website created using VB.NET. I need to add authentication and, as we use Azure Active Directory, I thought I could connect it to that.
All I need to do is be able to have the username of the current user, so I can then turn on or off buttons etc depending who they are.
All the examples I can find are for ASP.NET Web applications.
How do I add to a standard site?
Thanks
Gareth
At the minute I am building an ASP.NET MVC application to learn the technology, and I want to incorporate web services as I have never used them before and I want to have experience with them.
I was wondering would it be possible to create a web service and run it on the Visual studio local host along with my MVC application an then consume it with the MVC application.
I am hoping that the web service will basically pull data from the the same db as the app and then allow the mvc app to consume the service. Would this be possible?
Sorry if this is a pointless question but it is for a college project. Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Yes, it is very possible with Visual Studio - in fact, it is easy. Best to follow some tutorials - one such tutorial is http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-music-store.
For more specifics about the service from within VS, this link may be more helpful - msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668184(v=vs.100).aspx
If you are talking a WCF service, this is very easy to do. You'll want to add the service to the same solution as your MVC project, right click on References in the MVC project, then click add service reference. On the dialog that comes up, click discover to the right and it will find the service in the solution allowing you to add it locally.
Once you have a service reference, you can right click and configure to see the path. Should be set to localhost in this case. Doing this will allow you to set breakpoints and debug the service through your MVC application.
I'd like to make an OOB Silverlight app based on the Silverlight Business Application template in Visual Studio. The template uses the default ASP.Net membership provider. I understand how to use that to add users and roles, etc. I've found plenty of tutorials on that. What I'd like to be able to do, is configure the Silverlight template so that it uses an existing ASP.Net membership base. We'd like this app to have a companion website (ASP.Net based).
To clarify: We've been able to setup an ASP.Net website and have created a SQL database with the required tables (aspnet_Users, aspnet_Membership, etc.). I'd like to configure a Silverlight app to access the same users and roles that are in those tables.
Can anyone help me out in terms of what I'd need to put in the Web.config? Do I just need a connection string? I'm new to ASP.Net authentication, but I'd rather use what ASP.Net gives me out of the box than have to write my own authentication service. I feel like this should be really easy, and is just a matter of pointing the Silverlight app in the right direction.
I'd like to use Silverlight 5 and .Net 4.5 if I can but I don't mind using an older version of either if it makes things easier.
You can just point the connection string to the existing database.
From this answer:
You can point your connection string for authentication to a database that all application can access.
So if you have the default database that .NET creates, you can point your other application to that as well for authentication.
I have a LightSwitch customer-order management application. The customers can login and only view their orders. I'm trying to create a similar web app but not sure what route to take - ASP.net...etc. since not all my clients have Silverlight installed. If I did this in ASP.NET with Visual Web Developer, how would I go about the authentication based on the customer record in the db? It wasn't as big of a deal in LightSwitch.
There is an article on Codeproject about sharing the authentication between a .NET app and LightSwitch. Basically it comes down to 2 things in the web.config; MachineKey, and Forms Cookie. These have to be the same in all web.config files, and it automatically works.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/DNNThingsForSale.aspx
Also, Team Foundation Server has a web front end, and it exactly represents what is in the application.... Team Foundation Server uses the exact same way of describing the UI as LightSwitch ... so you might find something there.
Mine is a web product (delivered to a browser), being built on ASP.Net (Framework 4.0).
Most customers seek Single Sign On, such that their users should directly logon to the application on its invocation with the Windows or Active Directory login, they're using. Some other customers want the application to accept form based login credentials. So basically my web application should be able to adjust (configured) based on the customer's requirement. Their may be claims based authentication is some stray cases as well. I'd like to know the best way to achieve this in ASP.Net.
.NET open auth is your friend.
http://www.dotnetopenauth.net/
Then, there's active directory/LDAP:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/everythingInAD.aspx#35
And your own provider + WinForms should be clear.