Adding Google and Facebook Authentication to an MVC 5 App: Updated Instructions

Monday, 27 February 2017
  • By
  • Jeff Ammons

Since Microsoft's instructions for adding Google and Facebook logins to your MVC 5 application are a bit out of date, I'm going to post here a step by step summary of what you need to do to add those logins to your app.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This is a great tutorial, but it is out of date on two scores: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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VSCode Multiple Integrated Terminals!

Friday, 09 December 2016
  • By
  • Jeff Ammons

Two Terminals!

Both PowerShell and Bash in VS Code at the same time!

If you love Visual Studio Code as much as I do, and you do anything at the command line, you have probably discovered the integrated terminal.

Of course VS Code isn't the first text editor to include an integrated terminal, but it is extraordinarily handy!

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