MCS UK Solution Development Team

Don’t forget to check out the "Lap around App Fab" session by Santosh Benjamin. What: Microsoft Online Cloud Conference: the TechDays team goes online Make a date in your diary for the first free @techdays online conference, showcasing everything...

In the previous post we saw how easy it is to get basic Relying Party (RP) and Identity Provider (IdP) websites up and running using a minimal amount of coding with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). I now want to extend these examples. In this...

For those of you who are fans of the BBC show Top Gear, you may remember the Cool Wall, and now you can get your very own Cool Wall along with the launch of IE9 beta and BBC’s Top Gear site. I have been very fortunate to be a member in the team within...

In a recent post I discussed using CTEs for managing ordered DELETE operations. Adventures in TSQL: Using CTEs when performing DELETE operations However CTEs are also useful for ordered UPDATE operations, as I will hopefully show in this post. One of...

I am sure lots of us have been in the situation where, after hours of poring through compiled source code in Reflector whilst simultaneously trying to hold the values of hundreds of conspiratorial variables in our heads, we are left thinking that it would...

Privacy and minimal disclosure of information are important aspects of any identity verification system. However, end-users are often unaware of exactly what information is being disclosed to online service providers. The U-Prove protocol has been...

Over the course of a project (or several projects) it is common for teams to establish certain implementation patterns, favour certain code templates, use a common set of tools and so on that allow them to be more productive. They may then take this to...