April 2015 – Code Rant

Configuring IIS and Setting up Thinktecture v2 Identity Server

As the title indicate, this post is about installing IIS and Configuring ThinkTecture v2 up and running.

Search and run app.wiz.cpl

click “Turn windows features on or off” (1)

Tick “IIS Management Console” (2)

Tick ASP.NET 4.5 (3)

It is of utmost importance that ASP.NET 4.5 is ticked else when one would attempt to navigate to thinktecture v2 the following HTTP Error 500.19 will pop up.

Wait for features to be found and installed.

click close

Navigate to Localhost

IIS is up and running. Next is Downloading ThinkTecture V2 configuring IIS to serve ThinkTecture V2

Visit https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer2/releases and download ThinkTecture V2

Follow along this video and everything should be fine https://vimeo.com/51088126

https://vimeo.com/51666380

Importing Excel 2013 Data into SharePoint 2013

Importing Excel Data into SharePoint 2013

Open your Excel file

Exporting Excel 2013 Data to SharePoint 2013

Click the Insert tab (1), select your data (2), click table (3) and click Ok (3)

Click anywhere inside the table (if the previous step as performed correctly a Design tab appears)

Click “Design” tab (1)

Click “Export” (2)

Click “Export table to SharePoint List” (3)

Enter Address URL Path of the site you wish to Import the Excel Data to (4)

This turns SharePoint as a source of data for the table to be exported (5) (The benefit of the Link is demonstrated after the export is completed)

Enter the preferred List name (6)

Enter Description (7)

Click Next

Click Finished

This means the data has been published to SharePoint List.

That’s it the Excel data is exported to SharePoinT

Benefit of “Create a read-only connection to the new SharePoint List”

Click “new item”

Fill out the Form and click Save

Right click on the table and click “Refresh” on the context menu

The latest data is visible in the Excel sheet.

ASP.NET Identity with Facebook (out of the box)

The following is a walk through of how to deal with authentication using Identity Providers mainly Facebook.

Open https://developers.facebook.com/

Click “Add a New App”

Click “WWW”

Click “Create New Facebook App ID”

Select Category and click “Create App ID”

Go to Visual studio 2013

Create new Project name it and select “ASP.NET Web application”

Set Authentication to “Individual User Accounts” and Click Ok

Build and run your project and copy the local URL go to Facebook Development in your browser where you left off

Paste the url in “Site URL” and “Mobile site URL” in this case localhost:61617 and click next

Refresh the page click Show button near App Secret

Enter your Facebook Password

Go to visual studio

Navigate in solution explorer to App_start/start.auth.cs

Scroll down Facebook boilerplate authentication code. Paste App Id and App Secret and uncomment the three lines

Rebuild the Project and run

Once it opens in the browser click Login

On the left of the page there should be a Facebook button click it

Click okay to authorize

Enter E-mail address to associate with that Facebook account on your application

Display E-mail after authentication

The e-mail will show every time the user is logged in.

That is how to authenticate a user using Facebook as an Identity Provider. Out of the box.

What’s else can we do with Facebook?

There a lot of things one can do with Facebook by using Facebook SDK the user can authorize your Web Site to access several Scopes. At the least one could skip the last two steps by requesting access to the e-mail and use that programmatically without the user having to type it.

The following is how to incorporate Facebook SDK in your project.

More info at http://www.nuget.org/packages/Facebook/7.0.5-beta

and https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api

The guideline is do not ask for more data than your application really need, because once you lose trust of the users, your web site is dead.