ITORIAN BLOG

As you know ASP.NET Core Identity (table structure) is different from what we had earlier in ASP.NET Identity. Actually the identity system which we have today with .NET Core is very mature and continuously evolved be it ASP.NET Membership, ASP.NET Identity 1, ASP.NET Identity 2 and now ASP.NET Core Identity. Recently I had to migrate few application to ASP.NET Core and similar its identity database. Because the table schema is changed, i had to re-think and create migration script which I would like to share with you today. It is very simple and easy, just three step and I had everything ready: STEP 1 : Change name of existing tables STEP 2 : Create ASP.NET Core Identity tables STEP 3 : Migrate data from old tables (ASP.NET Identity) to new tables (ASP.NET Core Identity) Script:  https://gist.github.com/itorian/c699e8534b392a6c726ec66c48100072 You should also watch my video, where I demoed migration.

In this video post you will learn about free SSL certificate and its installation. This free SSL certificate is from CloudFlare but due to lack of installation guidelines and step by step we as a developer ignores this. Using CloudFlare SSL is a great advantage because you get other service for free too. Off-course, with paid plans you will get all the gems. Remember this never affects your SEO ranks. Now, let's begin talking about this free SSL certificate. CloudFlare SSL sits between your user and your hosting server. So any potential attack is taken care by CloudFlare before they reach your server. So your user will see SSL certificate till their request reaches CloudFlare server. If you already have a website running without SSL and you want to get this, then i would recommend to take a screenshot of your domain NS, CNAME, A, AAAA, MX records before you try this. If you don't want any downtime, off-course, then steps would be like: whatever settings you have on your ...

In this post you will learn how to seed User’s Profile database tables (AspNetUsers and UserProfileInfoes, we created in last post) with dummy data.

In this post you will learn how to customize User’s Profile and add new fields/properties/columns (FirstName, LastName and EmailID) in a brand new table with ASP.NET Identity System.

Note: You should read this post instead, I found below walkthrough will not work on ASP.NET Identity 2. I will re-work on this post soon. In this post you will learn how to customize User’s Profile and add some more fields like FirstName, LastName, EmailID etc with ASP.NET Identity System. In my last post I listed some of the great new features introduced with Identity system .

In this post you will learn about a very new enhancement in ASP.NET Framework technologies (MVC, Web Forms, Web Pages, Web API and SignalR) known as ‘ASP.NET Identity System’ with the release of Visual Studio 2013. This enhancement well defines the meaning of ‘One ASP.NET’, because this can be used with all ASP.NET Framework technologies more easily than before.

MVC4 gone through some major changes in Windows Authentication functionality with IIS Express. In this article you will learn how to enable Windows Authentication in MVC4 Web Application on IIS Express, just follow the given steps.

In this article you will learn how to enable password resetting (in case user forgot the password) with Simple Membership in MVC. User needs to type his username and system will check its existence, if found correct this will send an email containing dynamically generated URL with username and password reset token.

In this article you will learn everything about ‘Output Caching in MVC’. I will take you by showing some real examples to make your view crystal clear.

In this article you will learn what CSRF is and best way to prevent such attacks. After a quick introduction about CSRF I will show you an example where attacker will change the profile information with one-click.

In this article you will learn how to avoid XSS attacks in MVC Application with Microsoft’s AntiXSS library. I will show you a case where user will submit the  malicious  HTML markup with message and it will start displaying annoying alert. Then I will move on and show you how to prevent it with AntiXSS.

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