Microsoft shipped ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 6, with the red-hot Blazor project getting built-in support for handling authentication and authorization, among other updates.

In ASP.Net Core – Microsoft’s lean and modular framework that can be used to build modern-day web applications on Windows, Linux, or MacOS – we have an additional option.

Middleware in ASP.NET Core allows us to create very flexible web applications. Our authentication key example is just one of many ways we might take advantage of middleware.

ASP.NET provides role-based authorization by way of Windows authentication, but problems like duplicated user maintenance make it harder than it should be. This simple, custom solution will do a ...

When applied to an entire controller class or a particular controller action, Authentication filters are applied prior to any Authorization filters. Let's see an Authentication filter in practice.