The updated tools for the RC along with the samples are out.  The samples from the prior 1.0 release will still work as well Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 2012 RC - Vibro.NET - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Samples are at the bottom : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2012...

When you’re working with WIF and WSTrustChannelFactory when you call the Issue operation, you can also request that a RequestSecurityTokenResponse as an out parameter. However, what can you do with that object?  Well, you could keep it around and use it for subsequent calls with the extension method...

This is a very nice addition and will make development across the various WebSSO protocols that much easier. Announcing the WIF Extension for SAML 2.0 Protocol Community Technology Preview! - Claims-Based Identity Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

When you’re working with Web SSO integration, sometimes it’s helpful to be able to decode the tokens that get passed around via the browser from the various participants in the trust – RP, STS, etc. With SAML tokens, sometimes they’re simply base64 encoded when they’re in the POST body; other times they...

The following video does a great overview of the rule language in ADFS v2.  Just 5 minutes to get you started…

Disclaimer: Use at your own risk – no warranties are granted or implied If you’ve worked with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) without the help of ADFS 2.0, you’ll run into situations where you’ll need to potentially generate or regenerate the metadata used for federation. Additionally, while WIF supports...