As promised, the recordings of the main sessions of the latest WIF Workshop are now available  on Channel9! The course starts from the very high level intro you’ve seen various times, and progresses into the deepest WIF training content we’ve ever...

I noticed that the following is an issue thru which people often run: when you show an aspx page (or any server content in general) in a dialog by mean of the javascript ShowModalDialog method, at the first postback you usually witness the instance of...

Brace yourself, here there's another coming :-) Today I had to explain to my girlfriend the difference between the expressive power of WS-Security as opposed to HTTPS. She's a computer scientist, so even if she doesn't know all the XML mumbo jumbo...

Are you excited about the Developer Preview of Windows Azure Active Directory? I sure am! In this post I am going to give a pretty deep look at the machinery that’s behind the Web Single Sign On capabilities in AAD in this Preview, demonstrated...

Hello everybody. It's some time that I have this sample in the buffer: I am publishing now in a rush, since this sundaly I leave for 2 weeks in EU for some nice CardSpace briefings here and there. I won't be on mail very much, so I hope you will hold...

This post contains no special considerations or insights, and is just meant to provide a base for the post here . If you are familiar with ASP.NET membership, DON’T READ THIS and go straight here . This is just a walkthrough which helps you to create...

The first version of Windows Identity Foundation was released in November 2009, in form of out of band package. There were many advantages in shipping out of band, the main one being that we made WIF available to both .NET 3.5 and 4.0, to SharePoint,...

I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally have something like the Geneva Framework available. With something that takes care of all the nitty-gritty details of the underlying protocol legwork, I am finally free to describe the advantages of the claims...

[Update: we received notice that not all of you were able to download the video . We fixed the issue already friday night, it should work for everybody. Enjoy! Thanks to Terje for the first headsup] Yesterday we finally had the session about the making...

The WIF online documentation just got a brand-new section , which provides a great reference for the WIF configuration elements. It’s very well written & organized, and certainly beats digging in the config schema ! Try it , I am sure you’ll find...

The wait is finally over! This morning we are making available the RTM version of the Identity and Access Tools for Visual Studio 2012 . Together with it, we refreshed all the WIF project samples in the code gallery to take advantage of the latest bits...

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...

[Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] In the former installment I blabbered a bit about how an...

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...

(in case Internet memes are not your thing: before you flame me for poor grammar, know that the “I eated it” is intentional: see http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/01/15/i-made-you-a-cookie/ ) Another week, another sample ASP.NET control for identity...

I promised it , and I'm doing it. In this post I will give a simple walkthrough of developing an STS with the ADFS "2" Identity Framework. If you went to my breakout session at TechEd Europe , you can safely skip this post. I am not going to reveal anything...

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....

Ahh, I’ve been looking forward for this post for a looong time. We just made available for download the bits of the Beta of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework . “ Zermatt ” is the codename of a .NET framework that helps developers build claims-aware...

The JWT handler class diagram, spanning 3 monitors :-)   Today I am really, really happy to announce the developer preview of a new extension that will make the JSON Web Token format (JWT) a first-class citizen in the .NET Framework: the JSON Web...

I am sure that many of you, amazed by the fantastic news about the Windows Developer Preview capabilities, wondered if it will be possible to take advantage of ACS even from Metro Style applications. The answer is “yes, absolutely”. ...

On a plane between Philadelphia and Oslo: I am flying there for NDC2010 , where I have a couple of sessions (on WIF. Why do you ask?:-)). It’s a lifetime  that I want to visit Norway, and I can’t tell you how grateful to the NDC guys to have me!...

We are very excited today to announce our first developer preview of the Windows Azure Authentication Library (AAL). For an overview, please head to Alex’s announcement post on the Windows Azure blog: but in a nutshell, the Windows Azure Authentication...

A little new toy for you claims-based identity aficionados to play with! Available here . Tokens are the currency on the identity market. Any identity solution you develop will require you to acquire & consume tokens (& associated claims) at some...

Are you ready to roll? I have just flipped the publish bit on the March 2010 update of the Identity Developer Training Kit ! The new release contains various fixes and improvements, but above all it contains two brand-new labs about two scenarios you...

Hi everybody! At the address http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/wingimcana you can find a small toy I wrote in order to play with one of the coolest but least mentioned M200 features, the Accelerometer. Winform is pretty far from my daily bread (web services...