Update: the same roadmap is now published on MSDN . I adjusted the slide below to make timelines clearer. No other changes. We wanted to share with you all the projects we are either working on or we have identified as potential areas of investment in...

Training content based on our guides has been as popular as the content itself. You can now download the “Release Candidate” for labs corresponding to the new guide . The labs are more than just a mirror of the guide. We took the opportunity of adding...

This week, we completed a small PoC for brabant court , a customer that is building a Windows Azure application that integrates with Intuit’s Data Services (IDS). A couple words on mabbled from brabant court. Mabbled is a Windows Azure app (ASP.NET MVC...

In the previous post I covered the “semi-passive” way for authentication between a Windows Phone 7 client and a REST service. This post completes the information with the “active” way. There’s nothing unexpected here really: We call the Identity Provider...

In the last drop, we included a sample that demonstrates how to secure a REST web service with ACS, and a client calling that service running in a different security realm: In this case, ACS is the bridge between the WS-Trust/SAML world (Litware in the...

Second drop of samples and draft chapters is now available on CodePlex. Highlights: All 3 samples for ACS v2: (" ACS as a Federation Provider ", " ACS as a FP with Multiple Business Partners " and " ACS and REST endpoints "...

Apprenda’s SaaSGrid is now “claims enabled”!  This is fantastic news. Any SG customer can now enjoy the benefits of claims based identity: simpler user management, easy federation with business partners, support for multiple identity providers, greater...

  Following up on previous post , there were 2 questions: Where do these green checks images come from? There are nowhere in a-Order or in a-Expense… you would spend hours looking for the PNG, or JPG or GIF and you will never find it, because it...

While reviewing all the existing samples we’ve noticed that our implementation of Single Sign Out was kind of….weak.  It wasn’t really fully implemented and wasn’t very clear what was happening either (or what it should happen) We’ve fixed all that...

To work properly, a-Order needs a number of claims to be supplied: User name Organization Role The "Organization” claim is used to filter orders belonging to a specific customer of Adatum. For example, Litware users (like Rick) will eventually end...

In my previous post, I had a question for all you: What would happen if Adatum’s FP didn’t supply ACS with the whr parameter? An the answer is: ….. ACS will simply ask the user!   ACS has no way (besides the whr parameter) of knowing where to go...

Updates : fixed typos. Clarified how Home Realm Discovery works in this example.   In the previous post , I introduced the basic scenario of using ACS as a federation provider for Adatum (in addition to the one they already have). In this post, I...

The first scenario we are working is using ACS as a federation provider. This is an extension of the current chapter on Federation . The basic scenario is the following: Adatum has an Order processing app (a-Order) that is already claims enabled. Adatum...

Not surprisingly maybe, security in general, and authentication & authorization in particular, is a consistently highly rated concern for our customers. These concerns are especially elevated  with those considering the cloud, because they don...

  The answer (or better yet, my answer): The proof:   This is leveraging the use of a name when registering a type and using the convention of using the same name for all types in the same context (“A” and “B” in my little sample). Thanks Chris...

I can’t read a single character (except maybe one), but it looks beautiful: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/library/ff898435.aspx

Imagine you have a situation like this: 2 MVC controllers (A and B) have a dependency on Svc A . SvcA has a dependency on SvcB and a component implementing IX . SvcB has a dependency on something implementing IY . Every time the system resolves CtrlA...

A little bit late for a year balance since the year has already started, or so I’m told. Anyway, as we prepare for the next project, I reflected on my team’s work for the last 18 months. 18 months is more than a year, so you might wonder why am I doing...

Our dev team is fearlessly building the first versions Tailspin Surveys Mobile. Here’s an early example of their work: Now we are talking, huh?

  As adopted in all our recent guides, here’s a quick map for the entire “Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide” . No promises of course on the final scope. We might end up merging some chapters, deleting some other, etc. But this is our current intent...

Here’re some initial sketches of how Tailspin would look like and the navigation patterns we want to implement: Navigation: Home will list all available surveys to this particular user. Take Survey , allows to start one particular survey from the home...

Here’s a high level overview of the major components we are planning for Talspin Surveys . A few notes: The backend is essentially an extension to Tailspin surveys as described an implemented in the Windows Azure Architecture Guide (Part 2 ). There’s...

I’ve just uploaded to CodePlex updated samples for the Claims based Identity Guide . This have all been adapted to work on Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 and MVC 2.0. See here for downloading the bits. From the release notes:                                   ...

Now that the Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 is “done” (Done = content is complete and production is taking place. Production = index, covers, PDF conversion, etc), our team is ready for the next adventure. Our fictitious ISV, Tailspin, is very...