Bruce Hunter - 61 - Sep 10, 2014

ServiceStack WebForms
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WebForms Web Application:

For the pages that need to have Authentication cookie. I would just do the following on each page that requires one to be logged in with session/cookie.

    [Authenticate(HtmlRedirect = “login.aspx”)]
    public partial class Test : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }
    }

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Bruce Hunter:

Or this just goes above the login.aspx page code behind.

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Bruce Hunter:

I think this is my last hurdle with ServiceStack in a WebForm setup.

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Bruce Hunter:

I was looking at the ServiceStack code and I think I have to create a BasePage that ties to the CustomSession that I created etc.

I was looking at ServiceStack.WebHost.IntegrationTests

I guess this is the way to go.

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WebForms doesn’t do Filters so that’s not possible. Using ServiceStack.Razor would provide the best integration, Otherwise look at the ASP.NET PageBase used in the ServiceStack.Host.AspNet package:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/master/NuGet/ServiceStack.Host.AspNet/content/App_Start/PageBase.cs.pp

You would need to do something like:

if (!UserSession.IsAuthenticated)     RedirectToLogin();

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Bruce Hunter:

Thanks, that helps. I want to use MVC as I agree with you; more built in features, but the devs I work with do not for lack of knowledge.

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I’ll have a look at modernizing this PageBase to see what a good solution would be.

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Bruce Hunter:

Funny, this is the same code I found in the ServiceStack.Tests namespace. My CustomUserSession object is actually in the Interface.Session.CustomUserSession location. No need to have 2.

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Note: ServiceStack.Razor isn’t or has any dependency on MVC, it’s much simpler with both “No Ceremony Controller-less” Content Pages and Smart View Pages that you’re used to in WebForms as well as MVC model using ServiceStack Services (i.e. no MVC Controller in sight). See http://razor.servicestack.net/ for more details. It just uses @Razor syntax for views.

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Bruce Hunter:

Sweet! Thanks for the information. I will take that into consideration. Oh, keep up the good work. Love the product.

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Bruce Hunter:

I’m assuming that RedirectToLogin method would just be something I add to do the redirecting to where I want if no Session.

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Yeah that’s just a custom method that does the redirect if there’s no authenticated Session.

Also for SS.Razor the EmailContacts and HttpBenchmarks docs have a good walkthrough of using ServiceStack.Razor
https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/EmailContacts / https://github.com/ServiceStackApps/HttpBenchmarks