asp.net-identity-2

In my mvc5 project to disable an action link for unauthorized users i did like this @if (User.IsInRole("Admin") | User.IsInRole("Manager")) { @Html.ActionLink("Add New Record", "ProductTypeIndex", "ProductType") } But if there are many roles to check then this @if() gets long. How to avoid this? Do i need custom helpers for this(if so how can i approach it)? Help appreciated.. You could write your own extension method and use it in your code. public static class PrincipalExtensions { public static bool IsInAllRoles(this IPrincipal principal, params string[] roles) { return roles.All(r =>

I'm trying to confirm an account but I'm getting "invalid token." error. Here's what I'm trying: var code = await UserManager.GenerateEmailConfirmationTokenAsync(user.Id); var callbackUrl = Url.Action("ConfirmacaoEmail", "Usuario", new { userId = user.Id, code = code }, protocol: Request.Url.Scheme); await UserManager.SendEmailAsync(user.Id, "Ativação de Conta", user.GetEmailAtivacao(model.Nome, callbackUrl)); if I call UserManager.ConfirmEmailAsync after this code, I can confirm the account. However, if I open the link that it's inside the variable callbackUrl and try to confirm through that

I'm attempting to implement a web app using a microservice architecture by breaking up major components into separate web servers. I'm implementing an authentication server using ASP.NET Identity (email/username logins only, no Facebook, etc) and a "main" application server. My current challenge is figuring out how the application server will recognize if a user has logged via the authentication server. Since the authentication server generates tokens which it users to verify users's identities, I imagine that they are stored somewhere and can be queried by the application server, but I'm not

Apparently you can do this with the Facebook provider by adding scopes to the FacebookAuthenticationOptions object in Startup.Auth.cs : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/10/16/get-more-information-from-social-providers-used-in-the-vs-2013-project-templates.aspx List<string> scope = new List<string>() { "email" }; var x = new FacebookAuthenticationOptions(); x.Scope.Add("email"); ... app.UseFacebookAuthentication(x); How to do the same with Google provider? There isn't a x.Scope property for the GoogleAuthenticationOptions class/object! PLEASE SEE UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST!