It is hard to believe I haven't posted anything here in almost 5 years.

It's also hard to believe how much has changed in my life in that time.

When I last posted, I was working like mad running my coding bootcamp, Code Career Academy.

I had amazing students and loved every moment of teaching and helping my students learn software development.

Little did I know that a year and quarter later I'd come across an opportunity that I couldn't resist.

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Since Microsoft's instructions for adding Google and Facebook logins to your MVC 5 application are a bit out of date, I'm going to post here a step by step summary of what you need to do to add those logins to your app.

To start you can read Rick Anderson's tutorial at Code! MVC 5 App with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google OAuth2 Sign-on (C#).

This is a great tutorial, but it is out of date on two scores:

1. The Google process has changed
2. He shows how to set individual Controllers and Methods to require logins instead of the whole app.

In this post I'll match his step by step instructions and then show you where you should reference two of his other tutorials for more info.

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