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After publishing my previous article on ' Understanding concepts - OpenId, OAuth and SAML'  , I received a general question from a few of my colleagues and that is ‘Why OpenID arrived? What is the need of it’? By now, most of us are already aware that OAuth 2.0 is an authorization protocol and it really did a great job by providing information, which facilitated its user to take some prodigious authorization decisions. But what about exchanging this information? How to do that? Is that exchange done in a secure manner? Bla bla bla… All such sorts of questions are dealt in different- different manner as every authentication provider have their own mean of exchanging this OAuth information. As not all the providers have provided an equivalent level of security, led to some buzzes. Here OpenID Connect came for rescue. It fixes all the common problems by providing an authentication protocol with a standardized way of exchanging messages between a provider and subs

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019, two days back. This release has many awesome features targeting productivity and collaboration improvement. I’ve collected certain features as part of the launch event by Kendra Havens and Scott. Here are those: Side-by-side installation of Visual Studio versions New look of Start Page New look of Create Project window Redesigned user experience and theme Search is more intuitive Live share option for collaboration with fellow developers Debugger improvements – Search is available for Watch, Locals and Autos window Extracting only few projects from a solution – Solution filter Monitor awareness – VS resized as per the monitor size Fonts are colors based on classification of words Opening csproj file directly on double click of SDK projects New column Kind has added to Find All References option with Read/Write Code cleanup with just one click with rules configuration capability Facility to export code style as. editorconfig