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Social media provider authentication

Social media provider authentication - ASP.NET Core Tutorial

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Social media provider authentication

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- Social provider authentication is a type of authentication that allows users to log into your app using their existing social media platform accounts such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, et cetera. This is a great authentication type to allow users to directly access your app without the need to create yet another account. Instead, they can just leverage an account that they have already created. Now, let us go to Visual Studio and see in action how we can add Google authentication to our app. Now, in here the first thing that we need to do is that we need to install a NuGet package. So, for that I'll just go to the solution explorer, then I'll right click on the project, then manage NuGet packages. Go in here to the browse tab, now in here let us search for microsoft.aspnetcore.authentication.google. Let us select this package and then we are going to install the latest stable version, which is the version…

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