ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

We'll create a new ASP.NET Core Web project and add the required libraries to use cookies to hold authenticated user information in it:

1. Let's create a new ASP.NET Core web project and configure it using cookie authentication:

dotnet new web -n CookieAuthenticationSample 
dotnet add package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies 
dotnet restore 

2. Now we need to add the following line in the Startup.cs file before the app.UseMvc() or app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute() lines in the Configure() method:

 app.UseAuthentication(); 

3. We also need to add the following line in ConfigureServices() method, before the services.AddMvc() line, as follows:

 services.AddAuthentication("CookieAuthenticationScheme") .AddCookie("CookieAuthenticationScheme", ...