Introduction

This article explains customization of a social providers button in the ASP.NET MVC 5 using Visual Studio Studio 2013. As you all know, we can create the MVC 5 Project based ASP.NET Web Application in Visual Studio 2013, so here I am customizing the login providers buttons.

In that context, you need to be aware of the configuration of MVC 5 external login options.

Registration of OAuth Providers

We need to first enable the authentication providers for the project. Use the following procedure to create a sample of doing that.

Step 1: Open the Startup.Auth.cs file.

Startup Authentication File

Step 2: Enable the Google provider as shown below:

  1. app.UseGoogleAuthentication();

Step 3: Run your application and open the Login page.

Login with Google in MVC 5

Step 4: Use the same and open other providers and enter the app_id and app_secret value as "x" as shown below:

  1. app.UseTwitterAuthentication(
  2. consumerKey: "x",
  3. consumerSecret: "x");
  5. app.UseFacebookAuthentication(
  6. appId: "x",
  7. appSecret: "x");

These are the simple social provider buttons to be displayed on your login page.

All Providers in MVC 5

Customization of OAuth Providers

I am using a CSS file that is expressed on GitHub. Use the following procedure to do that.

Step 1: Create a CSS file in Content.

Creating Css File

Step 2: Name it "Zocial.css".

Enter Css

Step 3: Copy the content in it from the CSS file stored in GitHub.

Step 4: Open the Bundle Configuration file.

Bundle Configuration File

Step 5: Modify your code with the following code:

  1. bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/bootstrap").Include(
  2. "~/Scripts/bootstrap.js",
  3. "~/Scripts/respond.js"));
  5. bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/css").Include(
  6. "~/Content/bootstrap.css",
  7. "~/Content/site.css",
  8. "~/Content/zocial.css"));

In the code above I added the reference of my CSS file created in the Content folder.

Step 6: Now, open the external login file as in the following:

External Login File

Step 7: Modify the code with the following code:

  1. using (Html.BeginForm(action, "Account", new { ReturnUrl = returnUrl }))
  2. {
  3. @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
  4. <div id="socialLoginList">
  5. <p>
  6. @foreach (AuthenticationDescription p in loginProviders)
  7. {
  8. <button type="submit"
  9. class="zocial @p.AuthenticationType.ToLower()"
  10. id="@p.AuthenticationType"
  11. name="provider" value="@p.AuthenticationType"
  12. title="Log in using your @p.Caption account">
  13. @p.AuthenticationType</button>
  14. }
  15. </p>
  16. </div>
  17. }

Step 8: Run your application and open the Login page.

All Customized Providers in MVC 5

Summary

This article will help you to customize the external authentication providers in your MVC 5 project using Visual Studio 2013. You can also create the MVC 5 project in Visual Studio 2012 with Web Tools 2013.1. Thanks for reading.