[dear English-speaking reader, this post is about two interviews I gave to Italian media about WIF and claims based identity in general; henceforth, the post itself is in Italian. If you are curious and trust machine translations they are here and here...

More occult goodness for your programming pleasure! The Session Mode is a great feature of WIF which is not known as widely as it should be. Sometimes you will be in situations in which it is advisable to limit the size of the cookie you send around....

[Update: reposted per the blogs.msdn.com update] Greetings from Melbourne! It’s 4:00am here and I just jumped out of the bed, today I the flight back to Redmond. If you know me you know I am not a morning person, you can imagine the mood I would...

Back in August 2009 I wrote a post announcing the various book efforts I was involved in, and I mentioned a mysterious third book I was supposed to contribute one article to. Well, last week my esteemed colleague Tom Kohler walked in one of my EIC sessions...

At the end of the 1st day of the WIF workshop I typically go through a pretty deep session about WIF object model. Although somebody may accuse me to be a sadist to impose such a heavy topic at the end of a very intense training day, in the last 3 workshops...

During the WIF workshops I get various recurring questions: some have open-ended answers which would satisfy my logorrhea but that require A LOT of time to write, others are just a matter a minutes. Today’s post  belongs to the latter category. Some...

Fig 1. The Identity Developer Training Kit in all its new-vs2010-theme-design awesomeness In the last few months we have seen a growing demand for making our samples & guidance available to VS2010 users. I am happy to announce that we finally have...

Only few seats left for the only US date of the WIF Workshops megatour I am bringing around the planet! Apply for your seat at the link below: Register here Register Online Tuesday, June 01, 2010 9:00 AM - Wednesday, June 02, 2010 5:00 PM Pacific Time...

Doodling while attending panels at the EIC . The ones who attended yesterday’s session on claims and cloud will understand ;-)

Administrators around the globe, rejoice: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 has been released ! On the IdElement you can find the customary special on the event: Active Directory Federation Services v2 Ships! Share Today we are announcing the general...

…and fire in the sky ♫ Don’t you hate it when a technical blog devolves in what is for the most part a series of announcements? That’s kind of what happened to mine. The reality is that making the things which get announced here take an inordinate...

[dear Anglophone reader, here I report back from my trip in Italy; form the next post, the blog will switch back to English. Thank you for your patience] …fortunatamente mi accontento di essere un semplice evangelista :-) Il lancio di Visual Studio 2010...

I just (barely) made it back few days ago from a 3-weeks EU trip ( Belgium & UK WIF Workshops , Belgium TechDays and Italian VS2010 launch ), and I am already setting my out of office message again. In few hours I have a flight for Munich, where I...