Chapter 5. Getting started with web sign-on and Active Directory

This chapter opens the hands-on portion of this book, where all the theory you’ve been absorbing until now will help you to be a more effective developer for identity-related tasks.

The first task I’ll cover is the most common you will ever encounter: you will learn how to use Active Directory to sign in users to a web application. I will focus on the libraries required, the structure you need to use to organize your project, and the (largely boilerplate) code you need to add. I will show you how to set an entry for your application in Azure AD by using the technologies available today. Finally, I’ll walk you through a test run of the project to ensure that you’ve achieved the results ...

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