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Overview

ACS

ACS

The Access Control Service (ACS) provides an easy way for us to access our web application using Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Facebook accounts.

Prerequisites

Create an Access Control

Let's start by creating a new Access Control. So to create an ACS use the following procedure:

CreateACS

  1. Open Visual Studio and create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Project
  2. Now select Internet Application and then click OK.

In Solution Explorer, right-click the project and then select Identity and Access.

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Select Use the Windows Azure Access Control Service.

Configure

Click Configure.

ACS namespace: the name of the Active directory Access Control service.

The management Key: You will find it in the Windows Azure Management Portal.

Click Management Service and then click Management Client.

Select Windows Live ID and click OK.

preconfigure

In Identity and Access Option (Visual Studio) add a Google account also as in the following:

VsAlso

Now click Relying party applications and edit it.

Finally run your project as in the following:

RunProject

Summary

In this article we learned how to create an Access Control Service in Window Azure.