When you need to integrate authorization with procedural code, you're going to need your application's ClaimsPrincipal object so that you can check the user's authorization claims. Here's both how to ...

[Editor's note: Peter rewrote this article after a reader pointed out he over-engineered his original solution. ("What can I say: The code worked -- I just didn't need nearly as much code as I thought ...

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