.net 8A planned upgrade to Microsoft’s cross-platform, open source development platform is set to improve identity management, authentication and authorization due to enhancements in the security vein provided by the ASP.NET Core team.
Identity features in .NET 8 are positioned to make it easier to secure applications. Developers can add authentication and authorization to an application with a few lines of code, According to Microsoft bulletin on November 3, The new APIs make it possible to secure Web API endpoints with cookie-based authentication and authorization. It also includes a token-based option for customers who cannot use cookies.
Now in the Release Candidate (RC) stage and expected as a production release later this month, .NET 8 specifically improves identity management and login for client applications like single-page apps (SPA) and the Blazor WebAssembly SPA framework. Will provide API facility to simplify the process. , It will also enable token-based authentication and authorization in ASP.NET Core Identity for clients unable to use cookies. ASP.Net Core is a framework for building cloud-enabled, Internet-connected applications. Meanwhile, a new identity for Blazor Web Apps will work with UI, Server, and WebAssembly rendering modes. Additionally, part of the ASP.Net Core team’s contribution is better documentation for exploring and implementing identity management solutions.
Identity management is one of many improvements being considered .net 8, with planned enhancements to .NET technologies, from improved performance in the .NET MAUI (Multi-Platform App UI), to garbage collection capabilities, to quickly adjusting to memory limits. The current .NET 8 RC can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or macOS dotnet.microsoft.com,
