InfoCard and Browser Integration

re: InfoCard and Browser Integration

davidacoder — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:19:38 GMT

What will be the system requirements for user computers for this to work? Will it just be IE7, or WinFX as well? If the latter is required as well, I feel that will be a huge adoption blocker. I can't imagine that any website would use InfoCard, if that essentially ties them to a specific client platform. If they require WinFX on the client, they might as well use a smart client app in the first place... So, I would be incredibly interested how you want to solve the dilemma that web sites are build for reach, and how you hope to make the InfoCard client binaries so wide spread deployed that this doesn't conflict.

re: InfoCard and Browser Integration

andyhar — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:29:22 GMT

Good question. Yes, currently, InfoCard is part of WinFX. So, you need IE 7 and WinFX on your machine. You can run IE7 and WinFX Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server.

We understand your concern on adoption issues, and I don't have anything to share at this point. The site, BTW, can still support UserName/Password along with InfoCard, as we hope, more and more sites adopting InfoCard.

re: InfoCard and Browser Integration

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re: InfoCard and Browser Integration

TooTallSid — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:59:24 GMT

Andy,

In Michael Jones article on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebsrv/html/infocardwebguide.asp) we think we found an error in the second example in section 4.1.1 OBJECT Syntax Example. In the script function, fnGetCard(), there is a Card object. However, we see no declaration for this, although four lines above is the declaration for an OBJECT with ID="oCard". Should these two names be the same?

Thanks,
TooTallSid

re: InfoCard and Browser Integration

rbrown68@csc.com — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:39:14 GMT

Andy,

You wrote on February 20, 2006 that InfoCard is part of WinFX, yet when I install the February CTP version of WinFX, I don't get the Microsoft.InfoCards assembly required to run the samples in the "Federated Identity" package's InfoCard sample applications. I do get the rest of WinFX (including System.ServiceModel), and I do get the InfoCard service and control panel, just not the piece that matters to developing with InfoCard.

Keith Brown's article on InfoCard in the April 2006 issue of MSDN Magazine links to your blog entry from November (http://blogs.msdn.com/495649.aspx) that starts with a dead link to the obsoleted November 2005 CTP.

Meanwhile, the download page for "Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) for the February 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Windows Vista and WinFX Runtime Components" links to a "Microsoft® Windows® SDK Readme for the February 2006 CTP" document that says in section 6.6.1 that the InfoCard samples do not compile with this version of the SDK.

All this is not inspiring! I have wasted a day chasing my tail on this. Would you please post some clear, consistent instructions that will get my VS2005 environment (in XP) ready to debug some InfoCard samples?

Thanks,
Ross Brown
Computer Sciences Corporation
rbrown68@csc.com

re: InfoCard and Browser Integration

andyhar — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:39:39 GMT

re: on OBJECT with ID="oCard" --- actually the example should not required JavaScript. You can specify the issuer, issuerPolicy and tokenType in PARAM, like an example in my post above. Yes, there is a typo in that document - it should be oCard.issuer. I'll talk to Mike about this. Thanks!

re: WinFX March CTP. Yes, InfoCard is always part of WinFX, including March CTP. We moved the namespaces from Microsoft.InfoCards to System.IdentityModels.Selectors. We hear your feedback. One person is currently working on updating version of ResourceKit that matches with CTPs (similar to Sept Resource Kit last year).

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