The identity layer for AI agents is finally being built. What MCP, A2A and new research delivered since March, and what's ...

API stands for Application Programming Interface. It is a tool that allows two software systems to exchange information with ...

This sample demonstrates a .NET web App and native client calling a .NET web API that is secured using Azure AD. Further on the API will also call a downstream API on-behalf of the signed-in user. The ...

While putting some special content together, I found myself needing to integrate API key authentication middleware into my ASP.NET Core application. I’ve written before about using custom middleware ...

Ever wonder why setting up an auth server feels like building a plane while flying it? It's basically the brain of your identity architecture. At its core, the oauth authorization server is the ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

Imagine this: you’re working on a tight deadline, trying to access a critical app, and bam, you’re locked out because you forgot your password. Again. Now multiply that experience across five apps you ...

Take advantage of improved identity management in ASP.NET Core to implement identity-based authentication for minimal APIs quickly, easily, and with less code. Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core allow us to ...

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 ...