Content relating to the ASP.NET web development using the .NET Framework.
Most modern cloud authentication providers (i.e. Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Okta, etc.) provide a claims-based user management capability. A user can be assigned roles and permissions and these are surfaced in .NET’s user identity classes as ‘claims’.
Although, most of the time, claims can be configured and managed in the identity provider’s management console there may be times when you want to inject additional claims, and this article discusses how that can be done.
When working on multi-developer projects, if each developer machine isn’t configured the same way developers can waste a lot of time editing connection strings, local machine name, and other settings when pulling code projects from source code control. On ASP.NET code projects, you can configure per-machine configuration overrides to overcome this.
Many ASP.NET 2 projects will have utilised the AJAX Control Toolkit for more dynamic behaviours and the performance gains of partial page refreshes. A common issue with having used that toolkit when upgrading an ASP.NET 2 project to ASP.NET MVC is how to replicate the controls it offered without adding a lot of additional work to the upgrade project.