In short: in this post I will show you how you can leverage the OnStart event of a WebRole to enable changing the WIF config settings even after deployment. Since the very first time Hervey and I made the first foray in Windows Azure with WIF, all the...

If you went through the hands on lab for using ACS on your Windows Phone 7 application , you already know that saving the user the hassle to re-authenticate all the times entails a security tradeoff. Here there’s what I wrote in the lab’s...

Yesterday we released the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 , with a boatload of new awesome features (I’ll write about one of those in the next post). Beta versions are likely to have some known issues, and this one is no exception. In fact...

ACS offers you a variety of identity provider you can integrate with. Many of you will be familiar with the list shown by the management portal at the beginning of the add new identity provider wizard. Some of you may also know that ACS integrates with...

Long story short: we are releasing on Codeplex a set of PowerShell cmdlets which wrap the management API of the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service. This is hopefully for the joy of our IT admin friends who want to add ACS to their arsenal...

Friendly faces everywhere / Humble folks without temptation . More seriously, this is one of those rare occasions where you could meet with the guy who wrote (or spec’ed) the exact feature you are interested into… and they are all here for answering your...

If I’d have a dollar for every time a customer or partner asked me if they could use WIF for consuming the SAML2.0 protocol… ok, I would not exactly buy a villa a Portofino, but let’s just say that this is one of the most requested features since WIF...

Just few hours ago Wade announced the new release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone , with support for ACS . You can already see the bits in action from the stage of the TechEd keynote – nonetheless – from where a very elegant Drew Robbins...

As promised last week , today Wade released the 1.2 version of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 . And again as promised, this version has full support for ACS! Using the new feature is super straightforward: you can see that by yourself...

Yesterday I posted about my sessions at TechEd and the book signing event . My friends at O’Reilly, though, graciously pointed out that I didn’t mention the juiciest fact: The first 25 people who will show up at the book signing will receive a free copy...

These days practically everybody I meet on campus is preparing to fly to Atlanta for TechEd, with the notable exception of Steve Marx (it seems I may be losing our bet after all). Atlanta holds a special meaning for me. Back in 2004 I won the Circle...

As anticipated, a couple of weeks ago I came back to EU to present at the Belgian TechDays and at the Netherland’s DevDays. For schedule constraints, I ended up being able to travel from Antwerp to the Hague only Thursday night (a nice train...

I am sure many of you already know about the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 , a set of Visual Studio templates and samples which makes it easier for you to take advantage of the Windows Azure platform from your Windows Phone 7 applications...

Working with one of your idols is one once-in-a-lifetime privilege; getting to be friends, even rarer. Kim Cameron does not need introductions, no sirs, especially if you are reading this from an Internet-connected device. His contribution to how we...

Welcome to the last installment of the “Fun with FabrikamShipping SaaS” series. The “fun” blogs are meant to help you walking through the demo; once we are done with that, I’ll finally start to talk about what makes the demo tick: architecture, code and...