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Facebook authentication

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Facebook authentication

- [Instructor] On this part, we will see how we can authenticate with Facebook from ASP.NET MVC application. In your browser, navigate to developers.facebook.com/apps. And then log into Facebook, by entering your Facebook credentials. If you aren't already registered as a Facebook developer, click register as a developer and follow the directions to register. I'm already registered, so in here I will simply click the add a new app button to create a new Facebook application. Next provide the name and a contact email. Click the create app ID button to create this application. Once the app is created successfully, this is the list of all products that you're going to get. We are interested in the Facebook Login product, because this is we're going to see how it's done. For that, click on the set up button on the Facebook Login tile. On the next step, choose the web option because we are building an ASP.NET MVC web application. And in the site URL, you need to paste the URL of your web…

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