First things first – oh no they don’t J But it can look like a bug if you’re not used to MVC, so I thought it worth calling out. Scenario Imagine we have a pair of controller actions like this; [ HttpGet ] public ActionResult...

When requesting a SAML token from an STS you can also request a proof token, which you can use to proof your ownership (by signing the primary signature with the proof token) of the token to the relying party when sending a SOAP message to it. In Identity...

A customer recently asked me how to get MVC with the MVC Futures project’s MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js adapter file to play nicely with the Validation Summary HTML helper. It turns out that this functionality isn’t built into the adapter script file...

This is part of a mini-series: Part 1 – Define the problem & give a workaround Part 2 – Show an alternative workaround Part 3 – Show a reusable, simple solution Part 4 – Replacing Object.ascx My last post...

WIF is framework to claim-enable ASP.net applications and WCF services. WF 4.0 introduced a new paradigm for developing services (known as Workflow Services), whose implementation is based on workflow. Windows Server AppFabric provides the hosting, management...

When writing a custom activity you’ll typically want to provide a custom designer which is used when rendering your activity on the design surface. Visual Studio will look for designers using a couple of methods – one old, one new. In this...

Do the types you work with in your ASP.NET MVC models ever have enums? Mine do from time to time and I’ve found myself needing to render a dropdown list to allow the user to select the enum value. For the purposes of this post, I will be working with...

Recently I put together samples for different types of validation for some customers, and one of those was Conditional Validation – that is “this field is required if another field is true”, and such like. But a few weeks later I saw my code fail! I got...

In Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) consulting engagements with customers, we usually cover the automation of various activities in the development process. Most of the development teams I work with have some sort of automated build system in place...