Federated Identity Issues when use self-signed certificate

Last week, we delivered a federated development workshop with Visual Studio 2015 and Active Directory. During the workshop exercises, we found that the self-signed certificate will make the Visual Studio project. One of our researcher, Sonny shows us the solution below.

Problem

You create a web application that use federated identity such as Active directory. However, during the development we faced an error because it used self-signed certification.

Cause

It might be because the compatibility issues on Visual Studio and Self-Signed Certification

Solution

  • Add this codes on Global.asax.cs (Source)

    ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate { return true; };

  • Web config error. (Source)

    for 4.5 and C#5 -

    type="Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider...

    for 4.6 and C#6 -

    type="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"

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