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

Over the past couple of weeks I have come across lots of questions/discussions on while OAuth/OpenId is cool as a feature in the ASP.NET templates in Visual Studio 2012, but how do I easily integrate this into my application outside of the templates. More so how do I extend the Universal Providers to integrate OAuth/OpenId and use other ...

Customizing the login UI when using OAuth/OpenID

In the last post I showed how you can plug in your own OAuth/OpenID provider. This post shows you how you can pass in extra data about the provider such as display name, image etc and use this information when building up the UI for login screen   If you see the experience of login screen in the ASP.NET templates, it looks like this. (...

Plugging custom OAuth/OpenID providers

In the previous post, I wrote about how you can use the existing providers for Google, Facebook etc. and retrieve extra metadata about the authenticated users. Let’s assume you wanted to change the way the providers request for information. Some examples of this could be This post covers how you can write your own provider and ...