Authenticating With A Custom Claims-Based Identity
In one of our recent projects, we were managing data back and forth between two websites: one set up for an intranet with Active Directory authentication and the other set up to face external traffic with Identity authentication. In the project, a need arose to authenticate a user from the Active Directory intranet site on…
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Looking Back and Looking Ahead
As we were looking back over the blog’s 2012 stats, I was struck (and humbled, honestly) at how many visitors we’ve received and the attention certain posts had garnered. Our five most popular posts in 2012 were: Ganz’s ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010 Santi’s Developing Reports for SQL Server Reporting Services…
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Posting JSON Data to an MVC Controller via Ajax
Form posts are a thing of the past. Most new interactive HTML5-Web 2.0-buzzword web apps are trending towards a one-page UI with Ajax requests used to pull and push data dynamically. So if you are doing a cool new web app that does not use any form posts, why would you make your Ajax posts…
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That Pesky “Requested Resource Does Not Support HTTP Method ‘POST’” Error When Using MVC Web API
While working on a project that involved MVC Web API, I ran into a strange issue. I created my controller, registered my routes and decorated my methods with “[HttpPost]”, but the application would still not allow me to do POST requests to my method (HTTP 405 – Method not allowed. The requested resource does not…
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Testing Session in MVC in Four Lines of Code
Controller testing in the model-view-controller (MVC) is simple. ?The level of difficulty is increased with the use of Session in the controller, but only slightly. In this post I show how to simply test controllers which use Session. Let’s try testing this controller method: The following code (in a test project) will throw a null…
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