Andy Harjanto's InfoCard WebLog

This is the information you've been waiting for! You've seen the InfoCard -IE 7 demo at RSA Conference last week . If you missed it, not too worry - plenty of articles you can read. Many have asked me, how does it really work? In a simplest scenario...

By now, you may already know that we have shipped WinFX November 2005 Community Technology Preview (which includes the latest InfoCard). Today, we just published InfoCard Guide to Integrating with InfoCard and Technical Reference for InfoCard v1.0 . These...

For those of you who missed PDC, now you can download "InfoCard" PDC presentations from PDC ComNet. One presentation ( Identity, Access, "InfoCard," and the Identity Metasystem ) was given by our architect, JohnShew, and the other talk ( Developing Federated...

What a great week, last week! I met many of you at PDC, discussing InfoCard, Identity Metasystem. I learned plenty from you, understanding the scenarios, your customers' requirements, or discussing how other technologies could use "InfoCard". Thank you...

I'm back! We're a week away from PDC. A few members in the InfoCard team (including me) will be there at the PDC. For those of you who will be at the conference, we're looking forward to meeting and hearing your feedback. I'll also present one technical...

Now, that you, as the user, let the RP in (please see my previous posting) based on RP’s certificate and logos, RP, in turns, could express its security token requirements to you before it grants you some access. Consider the following xml fragments...

RP? …. RP Who? …. RP, the good guy, really! Would you open the door to a stranger? Probably. Would you give up some valuable information to him? Probably not without checking his identity; and of course you won’t take any of his identity, like his...

…Now the fun begins…, let’s code and we’ll get back to a few InfoCard concepts later… Follow the following instructions: 1. Create a New Project. Choose the project type, for our walkthrough, let’s just pick a Console Application , and name your...

Have you created your first self-issued card yet? Please see my first posting for instruction . Would you like to create, delete a bunch of cards programmatically? I have a good news and/or a bad news. The bad (or good) news is – you can’t. There is no...

I received plenty of feedback and emails on my first posting; thank you – keep in coming! Also, thanks to Kim who mentioned my blog on his and for his kind words. It is really an honor and pleasure working with him. Let me tell you that all design meetings...

A few articles have written about InfoCard in the past few months; now it's your chance to get a sneak peak of InfoCard. First, I recommend reading these two articles: Microsoft Vision of Identity System and The Laws of Identity . I also enjoy reading...