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The Project In this article I am using IdentityServer4 which has been enriched with Identity to have access to UserManager and SignInManager. The key part about linking these 2 together was the use of a certain nuget package IdentityServer4.AspIdentity which provided some extra services for us that binds these 2 together. The added services are:Read more

Unit tests are extremely important in making sure your application behaves normally. There is often the need to unit test a method which requires an authenticated context and lucky there is an easy way to do this. A typical startup file may have the authorization and authentication middleware setup. I know it might seem confusingRead more

Integration tests ensure that an app’s components function correctly, that the business logic returns the expected value. WebApplicationFactory is not new in the dotnet world but it’s not well know to all dot net developers. A more comprehensive article can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/integration-tests?view=aspnetcore-3.1. In this example I will exemplify a simple webapi and oneRead more

To use the ASP Identity manager there are some builtin extension methods that add all the required dependencies. AddIdentity<TUser, TRole> – this method adds the UserManager, SignInManager and RoleManager AddIdentityCore<TUser> – this method adds only the UserManager To add the identity with the SignManager but excluding the RoleManager we have to manually build it up,Read more

Description Blazor comes with some pretty nice tricks, some of them which were either not possible, or just hard to implement in other frameworks. Having a modular system in blazor is … amazingly easy. You just have to tell the Router component, to look for other assemblies also   I have a simple blazor app,Read more

The Microsoft team provides a pretty good library (with minor issues which I will discuss in other posts) for managing users and authentication. AspIdentity is very configurable and it meets most demands for small and large applications. You can use the built in method to add an Identity and this adds all the dependencies andRead more

I am spending time these days to analyze and understand some implementation details that drive the identity for ASP. And one particular implementation really caught my mind, I am not saying it’s right or wrong, but it’s something to be aware of: The UserStore and the UserOnlyStore give you all the functionality you need forRead more

In my path to understand the magic behind the frameworks because without knowing we are just playing blank, I have tried to follow the trail of the sign in method that Identity uses when signing in. Note that the official repo of the asp is on https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore. First step is to open the Identity projectRead more