Let's welcome MTOM Serialization Policy Assertion , or WS-MTOMPolicy for friends and close relatives :) As we know, WS-Policy provides a generic framework of tremendous expressive power. It is sometimes very useful for very specific domains to provide...

I've recently been asked for a CardSpace example which demonstrates the use of a smartcard. Well, our usual Garrett already made it! His STS sample can happily show off smartcard usage, you have just to produce the right kind of managed card. As...

Almost one year ago the web space that was hosting all my blog images (since 2003) somehow lost all of them, so for about one year my past musings were nicely decorated by red "x" all over the place. This evening I finally took the time to go through...

When something is part of your daily experience, it's really hard to think that for somebody else it could be uncommon or even bizarre. For some of my American friends it is really hard to imagine that somebody may not know what Fred Mayer is (<ItalianCaption>Una...

Architects and developers often overlook it, but the details of how things are rendered is of great importance for designers. This post explains how the CardSpace UI deals with the artwork assigned to cards, so that you can plan for predictable results...

Last week Charles and I locked ourselves in a conference room, and I spent a good hour filling a big whiteboard with security hieroglyphs. The result is the video currently on the home page of our most excellent Channel9 :-) That was an explanation...

Few months ago I stepped in Jaime's office and I pitched to him the idea of a Managed Card writer application, that would leverage his specialty: great user experience via WPF!!! So I took over one of the whiteboards of his office and filled it with hallucinations...

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Hello there! I'm totally drowning in stuff to do these days, but this post is quick to write and can potentially save you a lot of hassle :-) In RC1 (.NET framework 3.0, IE7.0 and/or Vista: for once, we have all nicely aligned) we discontinued the...

It's with great pleasure and pride that I write these lines. The first case study we publish about a customer in production with Windows Workflow Foundation is about an Italian account: it's Polfer, the railways police. Paul announces it here . I had...

Recently I posted mainly about CardSpace, but my mission is actually about all our application server technologies! Workflow Foundation is the perfect tool for describing & driving processes: and what is the generation of a managed card, if not a...

Oh joy! The WS-MetadaExchange specification has been updated. You can find the new spec here: http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/mex/WS-MetadataExchange.pdf . Notable differences: The use of specifications from the WS-Management suite, namely...

Weeell. As you know, I love sketching little pictures for supporting my point in my posts, and the tabletpc pen is simply perfect for that: it's really the most natural thing to use! It's very frustrating when you stumple into drawing software that exhibits...

Garrett shares some of his JS-flavoured wizardry : with that snippet you can find out on the fly if the browser you're running in is a good friend of CardSpace.

I'm receiving a lot of questions about the CRD file format, that is to say the format used by CardSpace for defining managed cards. I am rather sure that sooner or later we will publish an official reference for it, however I thought it could be interesting...

The product is not out yet, and I already think of the stuff I'd like in vNext.. :) Today's wishful thinking is about chains of trust. Imagine that your department of driving licences (DDL) issues you a managed card which represents the digital...

The idea of federation usually conjures images of enterprise partnerships, people in blue suites (and short hair!) shaking hands, corporate portals of unmistakable extranet taste, and so on... the famous federnet I was mentioning some posts ago . Some...

In the last year I really spent an amazing amount of time on airplaines, flying around the globe to pursue my mission: evangelize, evangelize, evangelize! :-) A couple of times, always with the same airline, the onboard entertainment system showed...

You asked for it, we made it :-) I'm just back from vacation, and on the first day or work 1) we released the July CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 , in which CardSpace bits work beautifully and 2) the NetFx3 community website opened a sandbox where you...

Finally Steven is blogging ! I always wondered when he'd start sharing his great experience on the Identity space, and I'd say I was never afraid to tell him :-) Steven has a view of the current identity landscape & players that only few others are...

Time to give Caleb well deserved real estate in this blog. He's explaining the most intricated CardSafe scenario, also thanks to the diagram that you can see behind his shoulders. Apparently the kisks were't supposed to be used as whiteboards, but we...

Maybe not that technical, but Identity related :-) After years of successful anonimity, Spiderman reveals his identity (source: Digg )! Who knows, maybe now that CardSpace is closer to RTM he feels more confident? ;-)

Me, Garrett, Richard and Caleb are very busy these days! CardSpace is getting a lot of interest, and it's always a pleasure to witness so many "A-HA" moments :). Keep the good questions coming! In the picture, two pictoresque characters at the CardSpace...

I'm here in Boston for TechEd. Boys, it's HUGE :-) Come to see me at the TLC: I will be most of the time at Architecture booth (together with the legitimate owners: Gianpaolo , Simon and others) and the Infocard booth (again, with the permanent starrs...

I was sentimentally attached to the name "Infocard", as I was to "Indigo" and "Avalon"... but I've to say that I love the name CardSpace! The acronym (WCS) sounds even familiar, now that I have learned to pronounce all those W-consonant-consonant. [:...