Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

Daz Wilkin 2 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:58:15 GMT

Pranav you say "You can pass in the connectionstring name in App_Start and the OAUth layer will use that connectionstring" but can you provide more specific instructions on how to do this? I'm unable to find any documentation for it. Thanks!

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

Mario Saccoia - MSP — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:27:48 GMT

Thanks for the blog post. Very useful.

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

pranav rastogi — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:14:28 GMT

@Hasan, yes you can. You can pass in the connectionstring name in App_Start and the OAUth layer will use that connectionstring

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

Hasan Nizamani — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:43:22 GMT

Can I add this new membership schema into an already created database?

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

pranav rastogi — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:58:26 GMT

@JB I am glad you found this post useful. You can use your CustomMembership to use this. Eventually Microsoft.AspNet.Membership.OpenAuth uses the membership APIs for login

Question1)

To see the structure of these tables, you can just run this app and inspect the schema or you can open the Microsoft.AspNet.Membership.OpenAuth.data dll in reflect. Oauth tables are EF POCO classes and have the schema defined there

Membership.OpenAuth.data should work with any custom implementation as long as you implement a membership provider. you can just use the custom membership provider in your config along with this package

Question2)

Since Membership.OpenAuth implements the membership APIs most probably your assessment is correct. Again I would recommend opening up the dll in reflector

I would also look at the CreateUser() call to see if the user is created correctly.

Question3)

This works for both v4.0 and v4.5 so it does not matter

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

JB — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:04:33 GMT

Pranav, first, THANK YOU for posting this. I have been struggling with several different approaches to FaceBook authentication and yours looks the best by far. Second, some questions. I'm using a custom membership provider and am trying to integrate your example into it.

Question 1: what are the structures of the additional SQL tables I need to create (UsersOpenAuth, etc) and where can I find some documentation on how to incorporate these tables into my custom membershipprovider?

Question 2: (related): My code gets stuck on this line in the ExternalLandingPage.aspx:

if (OpenAuth.Login(authResult.Provider, authResult.ProviderUserId, createPersistentCookie: false))

I believe it's because OpenAuth.Login is trying to execute defaultmembershipprovider methods that I do not have in my custom provider. Does that sound right? I have been unable to find a developer's reference for Microsoft.AspNet.Membership.OpenAuth -- do you have any suggestions?

Question 3: I'm writing this in ASP.NET WebForms (not MVC) 4.0. Should I be using 4.5 for any reason, or does it not matter?

Thanks again!

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

pranav rastogi — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:44:49 GMT

You will have to request more parameters as indicated here developers.google.com/.../OpenID

Following post shows how you can override the built in google/facebbok etc providers and write your own to request more information blogs.msdn.com/.../extra-information-from-oauth-openid-provider.aspx

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

Ana — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:43:27 GMT

Hi, I would like to access a users Google Drive files from within my .NET application. Is this made possible once the user logs in with their Google account?

Thanks

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

pranav rastogi — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:46:27 GMT

@Jay, can you please elaborate more on what you are looking for?

re: Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers

Jay Glynn — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:05:20 GMT

What if I want to be the auth service, not google or twitter etc. That's the sample I would love to see but haven't as of yet.