Eugenio Pace

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Eugenio’s Next Adventure

The Symposium is now behind us and I’m very pleased at how it went. Overall feedback was very...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/31/2013

patterns & practices Symposium 2013

I’m happy to announce the next p&p Symposium here in Redmond. Details below.    ...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/25/2012

Claims Identity Guide–Hands On Labs

Training content based on our guides has been as popular as the content itself. You can now download...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/13/2011

Intuit Data Services + Windows Azure + Identity

This week, we completed a small PoC for brabant court, a customer that is building a Windows Azure...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/07/2011

Authentication in WP7 client with REST Services–Part II

In the previous post I covered the “semi-passive” way for authentication between a Windows Phone 7...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/02/2011

Authentication in WP7 client with REST Services–Part I

In the last drop, we included a sample that demonstrates how to secure a REST web service with ACS,...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/24/2011

Drop #2 of Claims Identity Guide on CodePlex

Second drop of samples and draft chapters is now available on CodePlex. Highlights: All 3 samples...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/22/2011

SaaSGrid and Identity

Apprenda’s SaaSGrid is now “claims enabled”!  This is fantastic news. Any SG customer can now...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/21/2011

Web Single Sign Out–Part II

  Following up on previous post, there were 2 questions: Where do these green checks images...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/24/2011

Single Sign Out–WebSSO

While reviewing all the existing samples we’ve noticed that our implementation of Single Sign Out...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/16/2011

ACS as a Federation Provider – Claims transformation

To work properly, a-Order needs a number of claims to be supplied: User name Organization Role The...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/14/2011

ACS as a Federation Provider–Home Realm Discovery Part 2

In my previous post, I had a question for all you: What would happen if Adatum’s FP didn’t supply...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/10/2011

ACS as a Federation Provider - A little bit deeper into the sample (Home Realm Discovery)

Updates: fixed typos. Clarified how Home Realm Discovery works in this example.   In the...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/09/2011

Access Control Service as a Federation Provider

The first scenario we are working is using ACS as a federation provider. This is an extension of the...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/08/2011

Our next project – Claims based Identity and Access Control

Not surprisingly maybe, security in general, and authentication & authorization in particular,...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/04/2011

MVC–Unity–challenge answer

  The answer (or better yet, my answer): The proof:   This is leveraging the use of a name...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/27/2011

Windows Azure Guides in Japanese

I can’t read a single character (except maybe one), but it looks beautiful:...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/27/2011

Unity and MVC–Resolving types challenge

Imagine you have a situation like this: 2 MVC controllers (A and B) have a dependency on SvcA. SvcA...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/26/2011

A year’s balance–next project

A little bit late for a year balance since the year has already started, or so I’m told. Anyway, as...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/26/2011

Tailspin Surveys Mobile - An early screenshot

Our dev team is fearlessly building the first versions Tailspin Surveys Mobile. Here’s an early...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/05/2010

Tailspin Surveys–Windows Phone 7 edition–A guide to the Guide

  As adopted in all our recent guides, here’s a quick map for the entire “Windows Phone 7...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/03/2010

Tailspin Surveys–Windows Phone 7– UI Mockups

Here’re some initial sketches of how Tailspin would look like and the navigation patterns we want to...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/03/2010

Tailspin Surveys–Windows Phone 7 edition

Here’s a high level overview of the major components we are planning for Talspin Surveys. A few...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/02/2010

Claims Identity Guide samples updated

I’ve just uploaded to CodePlex updated samples for the Claims based Identity Guide. This have all...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/02/2010

What’s next? Tailspin goes mobile…

Now that the Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 is “done” (Done = content is complete and...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 07/15/2010

Happy birthday USA!

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 07/04/2010

Identity Federation Interoperability – WIF + ADFS + CA SiteMinder

  Update: I just found this comprehensive guide for setting up federation with CA SiteMinder....

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 07/01/2010

Identity Federation Interoperability – WIF + ADFS + IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

  How it works (Full size diagram here) End to end demo (Video here) Technorati Tags:...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/30/2010

Identity Federation Interoperability – WIF + ADFS + Sun’s OpenSSO

As I announced some time ago, we’ve been working on a few labs that demonstrate interoperability...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/30/2010

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Saving surveys in Tailspin

As I wrote in my previous post, different sites in TailSpin have different scalability needs. The...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/09/2010

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Tenant & Public site (and some notes on geo-location)

As you might recall from my the introduction post, Tailspin has essentially 3 sites: the ISV (#1) ,...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/08/2010

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Managing sessions

Session management is an important consideration for applications deployed to Windows Azure. In...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/05/2010

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Live!

While we wait for the book to be published, we packaged the entire guide to be available online. We...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/01/2010

Happy birthday Argentina!

Today Argentina celebrates 200 years of the revolution that led to independence. Happy birthday from...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/25/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Yet another way of writing records to store and dealing with failures

These series of posts dealt with various aspects of dealing with failures while saving information...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/24/2010

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Release Candidate Documents updated

I just uploaded new versions of the docs that make up our guide. No major changes, but some...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/24/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – The “Get”, “Delete” pattern for reading messages from queues

Fabio asked me on twitter “why there’re no dequeue, peek and enqueue on Windows Azure Queues?” ...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/11/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery – Part III (Small tweak, great benefits)

In the previous post, my question was about a small change in the code that would yield a big...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/04/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery and data consistency – Part II

I had some great answers on my previous post question, like Simone’s. Some where closer than others,...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/02/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Part I in a single picture

What’s covered in this first part of the Windows Azure Architecture Guide? Here’s a picture inspired...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/29/2010

Windows Azure Guidance - Additional notes on failure recovery on Windows Azure

Things will eventually fail in your application and you need to be prepared. So most components...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/29/2010

Continuation Tokens in Windows Azure Tables – Back and Previous paging

Scott has published the results of his “Continuation Token” spike, which is a critical aspect of...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/28/2010

Clarification on the last drop of Windows Azure Architecture Guide

It seems some people were somewhat confused with the guide downloads. A picture is worth 1000...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/28/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – New Code & Doc drop on CodePlex

We are almost content complete for our first Windows Azure Architecture Guide (the most probable...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/26/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Background Processing III (creating files for another system)

Last week Scott walked me through his current design for the “Integration Service” in our sample....

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/18/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Background processing II – One worker, two workers, …

Question for you: if your application has 2 “background” task to perform, do you implement this as 2...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/14/2010

Windows Azure Guidance – Using Shared Key Signatures for images in a-Expense

As described before, a-Expense static content (mainly the scanned images uploaded by users) is...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/13/2010

Windows Azure Guidance - Background processing I

If you recall from my original article on a-Expense, there were 2 background processes:   Scans...

Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/09/2010

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