This project demonstrates how to implement JWT (JSON Web Token) Authentication in an ASP.NET Core Web API. It includes secure endpoints, token generation, and Swagger integration for testing. It also ...

An authentication filter is a component that authenticates an HTTP request. Web API 2 and MVC 5 both support authentication filters, but they differ slightly, mostly in the naming conventions for the ...

Azure Key Vault and .NET Aspire provide the most secure way to store and retrieve secrets. Azure Key Vault is a cloud service that safeguards encryption keys and secrets like certificates, connection ...

In April 2023, I wrote about the commitment by the ASP.NET Core team to improve authentication, authorization, and identity management in .NET 8. The plan we presented included three key deliverables: ...

A complete RESTful web API built with C# and .NET Core 8.0, featuring JSON API endpoints, Entity Framework, JWT authentication, database integration, and ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. However, “minimal” doesn’t mean minimal security. Minimal APIs ...

It’s easy to secure minimal API endpoints in ASP.NET Core using JSON Web Tokens for authentication and authorization. Just follow these steps. ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called ...

The ASP.NET Core team is improving authentication, authorization, and identity management (collectively referred to as “auth”) in .NET 8. New APIs will make it easier to customize the user login and ...