commit 8d5a61f6ece6e46f6eb5ae896212acef4e5cf7e7
Author: Chris Ross (ASP.NET) <chrross@microsoft.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 26 14:53:22 2017 -0700

    Initial commit with readme, gitignore, license, and contributing.

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+[Oo]bj/
+[Bb]in/
+TestResults/
+.nuget/
+*.sln.ide/
+_ReSharper.*/
+.idea/
+packages/
+artifacts/
+PublishProfiles/
+.vs/
+*.user
+*.suo
+*.cache
+*.docstates
+_ReSharper.*
+nuget.exe
+*net45.csproj
+*net451.csproj
+*k10.csproj
+*.psess
+*.vsp
+*.pidb
+*.userprefs
+*DS_Store
+*.ncrunchsolution
+*.*sdf
+*.ipch
+*.swp
+*~
+.build/
+.testPublish/
+launchSettings.json
+BenchmarkDotNet.Artifacts/
+BDN.Generated/
+binaries/
+global.json
+korebuild-lock.txt
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+Contributing
+============
+
+Information on contributing to this repo is in the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/aspnet/Home/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md) in the Home repo.
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+Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and Contributors
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use
+this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the
+License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
+under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
+CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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+AuthSamples
+=================
+
+This repo contains ASP.NET Core samples for Authentication, Authorization, Identity, etc..
+
+This project is part of ASP.NET Core. You can find samples, documentation and getting started instructions for ASP.NET Core at the [Home](https://github.com/aspnet/home) repo.
+
+## Building from source
+
+To run a complete build on command line only, execute `build.cmd` or `build.sh` without arguments.
+
+Before opening this project in Visual Studio or VS Code, execute `build.cmd /t:Restore` (Windows) or `./build.sh /t:Restore` (Linux/macOS).
+This will execute only the part of the build script that downloads and initializes a few required build tools and packages.
+
+See [developer documentation](https://github.com/aspnet/Home/wiki) for more details.
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