Serverless computing is hot, hot, hot! And for good reason - it gives us a way to create focused and stateless microservices that solve exactly one problem without having to create a monolithic application and maintain a server. In other words, they are perfect in a mobile app scenario! I…
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Multi-Factor Authentication in Azure AD B2C
Can you believe this is the seventh post in the Adding Authentication Using Azure AD B2C Into Your Mobile Apps? With lucky number 7, it seems like a perfect time to do a review of where we came from... and a preview of where we're going with this whole thing.…
Social Authentication in Azure AD B2C
In the sixth chapter of the using mobile apps with Azure AD B2C series - we're going to add in social authentication! Social Authentication in Azure AD B2C If you've been following along with this series you should have an ASP.NET Core Web API app which requires authorization in…
Adding Authentication and Authorization with Azure AD B2C
Finally - we're at the point in this series where I show how to use Azure AD B2C to authenticate a user and then authorize that user to hit a Web API from a Xamarin.Forms application! In other words - we're at the post with the very official, and…
Azure AD B2C Application Fundamentals - The Parts of the Party
In the first 3 parts of this series on using Azure Active Directory B2C to provide authentication and authorization to Xamarin mobile apps, we took a look at what exactly Azure AD B2C is, how to create a tenant, and then how to invoke a Web API from a Xamarin…
Invoking and Consuming Web APIs with Xamarin
The whole point of Azure AD B2C is to both have a means of providing authentication between a front end client and a back end resource, and to obtain an access token which can be used for authorization purposes. In this article I'm going to cover some foundational steps before…