Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control with Visual Studio 2012

This guide shows you how to use Windows Azure Active Directory Access Control (also known as Access Control Service or ACS)

Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2012
• Identity and Access tool
• An active Windows Azure account

Lets start by configuring the Windows Azure part first.

1. Open dashboard
2. Click Active Directory
3. Click New from left bottom and fill in the name and choose region
4. Choose your subscription and click Manage from bottom
5. Take up your Service Namespace. In my case "tapanilablog"
6. Click Management Service from left and then ManagementClient
7. Click Password
8. Click Show Password and take up your Password there's needed later
9. Close your ACS management page and go back to dashboard
10. Click Web sites
11. Create new web site
12. Download the publish profile and take up the url

Now the Visual studio part

1. Create new web project. Check that you are targeting .net 4.5
2. Right click your project and choose Identity and Access
3. Select "Use the Windows Azure Access Control Service"
4. Click Change from below
5. Enter your ACS namespace and management key that we got before
6. Choose which providers you want to use with your application and Enter your realms and click okay
7. Right click project and click Publish
8. Import your publishing profile
9. Click Publish
10. Now it should open your website and automatically redirect you into Live login because that's the only method. After your login is completed it will show you "Server Error in '/' Application. Because we used empty project

Update 29.7.2013: If you have Runtime/Server issues when you have deployed this to Azure follow this guide.

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