Windows Azure - Authentication Using Facebook - ACS: Part 2

Overview

This is the second part of my articles about the “Access Control Service”. This article explains authentication using Facebook. So first we need to create a new Facebook App.

Link : Create facebook app


 

So to do the authentication using Facebook, use the following procedure.

Step 1

Create an app.

Step 2

Name your Facebook application.

Step 3

Check the website with Facebook login.

Step 4

Go to permission and add an email tag and click Save.

Step 5

Now go to go to Mange.WindowsAzure.com and add Facebook in the idendity Providers menu. You can find how to do it in Part- I of this article.
 
Now you can access it in your .NET application using Facebook.

Summary

In this article we learned how to do authentication in Window Azure's Access Control Services using Facebook.