When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your ...

Security is a major concern in web-based enterprise applications. When you need to transmit data over the wire, you should be aware of the various tools you can use to secure that data. ASP.Net Web ...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of many services and applications, enabling different software to interact with each other seamlessly. However, with this increased ...

ASP .NET MVC 5 is currently under developer preview, and is included in the recently-released Visual Studio 2013 Developer Preview. Today I'll be covering how to use the new Authentication Filters ...

This paper explains how to use the Java Authentication and Authorization API (JAAS). It plugs JAAS into the Struts framework. Though this paper focuses on Struts, and in particular the example ...

When I first heard that ASP.NET did role-based authorization, I was excited—until I found out that the only way to implement it was using Windows authentication. This requires all users and their ...

ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications. ASP.NET Identity is the latest in a series of frameworks that exist ...