Official Name for "Geneva"

CardSpaceBlog — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:55:00 GMT

This Monday, Microsoft made several announcements at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Among these announcements were the official names for the Geneva products currently in Beta.

The three components of Microsoft “Geneva” have the following names:

· Active Directory Federation Services – formerly known as “Geneva” Server. Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) enables Active Directory to be an identity provider in the claims based access platform. AD FS provides end users a single sign-on experience across applications, platforms and organizations and simplifies identity management for IT Pros by reducing duplicate accounts.

· Windows Identity Foundation – formerly known as “Geneva” Framework. Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) offers sets of APIs for ASP.NET and WCF developers to build claims-aware applications and make them federation capable. This API set covers both building relying party applications and federation services that can issue security tokens.

· Windows CardSpace – same as current version. Windows CardSpace enables managed and native applications to participate in the claims-based access platform. Windows CardSpace empowers end-users to have better control of their identity and allows administrators to setup streamlined single sign-on access.

This news is part of our Business Ready Security strategy to help both partners and customers 1) protect everywhere and access anywhere, 2) integrate and extend security across the enterprise, and 3) simplify the security experience and manage compliance.

For more information about these announcements and others that were made, check out the Microsoft Forefront Team Blog.

New in CardSpace "Geneva": the CardTile

CardSpaceBlog — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:36:00 GMT

Hi, my name is Colin Dellow and I'm a developer on the CardSpace team.

In Windows CardSpace "Geneva" beta, we've added a visual component to the OBJECT tag that we call the "CardTile." The CardTile shows the user the last card they submitted to a given site or the purple Information Card icon if they have never sent a card. Showing the user an image of the card they last submitted assures them it's the same site that they are returning to and that they have previously submitted a card to it.

Websites must explicitly opt into this feature; existing pages that use the object tag will continue to work as they always have, opening CardSpace for card selection. Even though the CardTile control is rendered in the page, the images shown by the control are not accessible to the page – it is not even possible for the page to know whether the image being shown is the Information Card icon or the user's most recent card.

Want to try it out?

Go install CardSpace "Geneva" and try it out – if you don't have a card, you can download an example card on the demo page.

Want to use it on your webpage?

To use the CardTile feature you will need to add the new displayType parameter to the OBJECT tag:

Stay tuned for future posts that describe how to do this using "Geneva" Framework, which also provides support for processing the token returned by CardSpace.

On their first visit, users will see a purple "I" CardTile indicating that they have never submitted a card to the site:

After submitting a card to the site, the tile will render differently for the user on subsequent visits:

This image tells the user that they have visited the site before and have most recently used the Fabrikam card.

A few notes:

The decision of which card to show isn't really as simple as the last used card – in fact, it is the last used card that matches the site's current policy requirements
The onclick attribute is an optional attribute; if set, the user's cursor will turn into a hand when it hovers over the CardTile, and the specified JavaScript will be executed when the user clicks

The default size of the CardTile is 120 pixels by 80 pixels, but this can be overridden:

We have only shipped support for the CardTile in the Internet Explorer plugin that comes with CardSpace "Geneva." In a separate post, we will document how other browser add-ons can also access this functionality in the beta.

Thanks,

Colin

“Geneva” Team Blog : CardTile

Official Name for "Geneva"

New in CardSpace "Geneva": the CardTile

Want to try it out?

Want to use it on your webpage?