Creating and configuring web APIs with project templates

• You can create applications with the project templates provided by Microsoft Identity Web. This is explained in this article
• Then you can configure your applications using msidentity-app-sync which is a dotnet global tool that creates/updates Azure AD or Azure AD B2C apps and updates your code configuration.

Download or build the NuGet package containing the .NET Core template:

You have two ways of installing the templates:

• either from NuGet
• or build them from the repository

Option 1: Install the templates in dotnet core

You can download the Microsoft.Identity.Web.ProjectTemplates-1.8.2 NuGet package from NuGet.org. The following command will install the templates from NuGet.org (or anything referenced as .NET sources, for instance in NuGet.config)

dotnet new -i Microsoft.Identity.Web.ProjectTemplates::1.8.2

Option 2: Build and install the templates from the repository

Alternatively if you want to build it yourself clone the Microsoft.Identity.Web repo, and then

dotnet pack /p:ClientSemVer=1.8.2
cd ProjectTemplates
cd bin
cd Debug
dotnet new -i Microsoft.Identity.Web.ProjectTemplates.1.4.0.nupkg

Overview of the web API project templates

Use the web API template

Microsoft identity platform web API

mkdir webapi
cd webapi
dotnet new webapi2 --auth SingleOrg

Microsoft identity platform web API calling Microsoft Graph

mkdir webapi-graph
cd webapi-graph
dotnet new webapi2 --auth SingleOrg --calls-graph

Microsoft identity platform web API calling a downstream API

mkdir webapi-calls-api
cd webapi-calls-api
dotnet new webapi2 --auth SingleOrg --called-api-url "https://localhost:12345" --called-api-scopes "api://{someguid}/access_as_user"

AzureAD B2C B2C

mkdir webapi-b2c
cd webapi-b2c
dotnet new webapi2 --auth IndividualB2C

gRPC Templates

• dotnet new worker2 --auth SingleOrg for AAD protected services
• dotnet new worker2 --auth IndividualB2C for Azure AD B2C protected services
• dotnet new worker2 --auth SingleOrg --calls-graph
• dotnet new worker2 --auth SingleOrg --called-api-url URL --called-api-scopes SCOPES

Azure Functions Templates

• dotnet new func2 --auth SingleOrg for AAD protected services
• dotnet new func2 --auth IndividualB2C for Azure AD B2C protected services
• dotnet new func2 --auth SingleOrg --calls-graph
• dotnet new func2 --auth SingleOrg --called-api-url URL --called-api-scopes SCOPES

(optional) Uninstall the project templates

cd ProjectTemplates
dotnet new -u Microsoft.Identity.Web.ProjectTemplates