Back in September I wrote the article “ Requesting a Token from Access Control Service in C# ”. In that article I demonstrated the creation of a requesting token, using the Simple Web Token (SWT) token format, and using the OAuth Web Resource Authorization...

This article demonstrates using WebClient in C# to make a client call to a secure Service Bus endpoint exposed using WebHttpRelayBinding. There are two key take-aways from this that mightn’t be covered by existing documentation and samples: (1) learn...

The AppFabric SDK V1.0 July Update SDK has a number of Access Control Service examples demonstrating the requesting of a token from the Access Control Service; however I find myself needing a small snippet to insert into other samples (e.g. Service Bus...

The AcmSafeGuard tool is a command line tool built to be able to perform a full export and import of the Azure AppFabric Access Control entities, as well as a delete-all operation. This tool, with source, is available in the attachment. I built this by...

I am in the process of updating the ACS Token Request samples per protocol updates in the ACS service from Version 0.8 to 0.9. I will update the samples in the blog, but in case you made your own changes to the samples, here are the updates you need to...

[UPDATE 2/11: Updated to use new STS V0.9 instead of V0.8] In the previous posts I demonstrated requesting tokens from the Access Control Service using both Simple Web Token and Shared Secret requests in Java and in PHP. In this little example I am...

[UPDATE 2/11: Updated to use new STS V0.9 instead of V0.8] Following demonstrates requesting a token from the .NET Services Access Control Services using a Shared Secret and another using a Simple Web Token. You'll also need these three libraries...

[UPDATE 2/11: Updated to use new STS V0.9 instead of V0.8] Following demonstrates requesting a token from the .NET Services Access Control Services using a Shared Secret and another using a Simple Web Token. <?php $stsUrl="https:...

When designing the Access Control Service we wanted to make it easy to request a token from the STS. We also wanted to make it possible to work with other languages, not just the .NET Framework. As such, I decided to validate the simplicity of the design...

I worked on a little toy project on the side for which I needed a XAML map of the United States; however, I could not find such a thing myself. After looking through a few options I ruled out making a SVG to XAML converter, as I suck too much with XSLT...

On the first day of TechEd 2006 I did a chalk talk on this subject. It being the first day and the first talk of the day there wasn't a huge response. The reason I did this chalk talk is because there were numerous teams within Microsoft as well as external...

While attending the WCF TechEd booth the most frequent asked question we get is "What is WinFx". This question is asked because our big sign has that as the title and each sub-group has a sub title, in my case "Windows Communication Foundation." I...