This article looks at implementing an ASP.NET Core application which authenticates using Microsoft Entra External ID for customers (CIAM). The ASP.NET Core authentication is implemented using the Microsoft.Identity.Web Nuget package. The client implements the OpenID Connect code flow with PKCE and a confidential client. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/EntraExternalIdCiam Microsoft Entra External ID for customers (CIAM) is a…

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ASP.NET Core authentication using Microsoft Entra External ID for customers (CIAM) is a new Microsoft product for customer (B2C) identity solutions. This has many changes to the existing Azure AD B2C solution and adopts many of the features from Azure AD. At present, the product is in public preview.