asp.net-mvc-5

I have written a webpage that takes advantage of Google/Facebook auth using MVC5 and OAuth sometimes, I'm able to auth very well using either Facebook or Google. It works quite well. However often what happens is Navigate to the login page Choose either google or facebook provide the account info, getting the necessary redirects redirect back to login page, but not logged in I'm not receiving (or not looking in the right place) any errors that clue me in - I am using SSL on Azure for hosting Does anyone have tips for why it sometimes works, and sometimes does not? this feels like it could be a

I am using Identity 2.1 in my MVC5 app. I am setting the isPersistent property of the PasswordSignInAsync to true to enable 'Remember Me': var result = await SignInManager.PasswordSignInAsync(model.Username, model.Password, true, shouldLockout: false); But if I stay logged in overnight, then when I refresh the page in the morning, it logs me out and I have to sign in again. How do I prevent automatic logging out until the user manually logs out? Is it something to do with the Cookie Authentication that identity uses? I don't really understand the CookieAuthenticationOptions that are set in

With the new version of VS 2013 RTM and asp.net mvc 5.0, I’ve decided to try out a few things... Needless to say, a lot has changed. For example, the new ASP.NET Identity is a replacement of the old Membership and (less old) SimpleMembership APIs. In all previous applications I’ve built, I never had the chance to work with Membership or with SimpleMembership. I’ve always ended up creating my own Login() method which would convert a submitted ViewModel to a POCO (using automapper) which in turn, would use some sort of repository to lookup the user and password. In return, I would obtain a User

I cannot set the width or cols in atextarea. Rows/Height works just fine. can someone please help thanks! @using (Html.BeginForm()) { @Html.AntiForgeryToken() @Html.ValidationSummary(true) @Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Comments, new {cols=60, rows=10}) @Html.HiddenFor(model => model.UserName, new { UserName = @User.Identity }) <div class="form-group"> <div class="col-md-10"> <input type="submit" value="Submit Feedback" class="btn btn-default" /> </div> </div> } Any advice or tips would be greatly appricated! thanks The HTML rendered is (I removed name and value text for security reasons:

I played around with the new authentication features in ASP.NET MVC 5 (I previously used DotNetOpenAuth ). I understand that the built-in Google provider uses OpenID [1] (and it works fine), but I want to use my own OpenID provider when authenticating. Unfortunately, I was not able to find an easy way to accomplish this with the out-of-the-box features of ASP.NET MVC 5. I looked through the source of Microsoft.Owin.Security.Google and based on this it seems quite possible to add a new OpenID provider. Is there an easier (maybe already built-in) way to add a new OpenID provider to an ASP.NET

So this may sound a dumb question, but how do I show a link only for an admin user? Suppose an ordinary user sees the following links: Home / About / Contact And an admin user sees the following links: Home / About / Contact / Admin I tried restricting in the controller and linking the controller on the menu. But it still shows the link for everyone, just doesn't allow access to anyone but admin Can the views be overloaded? Depending on what sort of Membership/User provider you are using, you should just be able to check directly from the View if the user is logged in and in the specific role.