August 2006 - Posts
A couple of minor glitches in the Simple STS Sample: Errata #1: if you downloaded the sample before 8:30PM PST AUG 21 2006, there is one little error: In the Sample.htm file in the website\cardspace directory, the object tag should read: <object type
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I've added a new Simple STS sample to the Windows CardSpace community website at : http://cardspace.netfx3.com/files/38/default.aspx . This should let everyone start building managed card support with a proof-of-concept STS. http://cardspace.netfx3.com/files/folders/samples-july-ctp/entry5204.aspx
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I originally wrote this as a comment to Pamela's blog , but I thought it was interesting enough to stand alone. Quoting from her post : The AOL search data scandal is a welcome wakeup call. It is useful to remember that even a common, theoretically harmless
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You can find a new CardSpace sample that shows the nitty-gritty of decrypting a SecurityToken: http://cardspace.netfx3.com/files/folders/samples-july-ctp/entry5152.aspx This contains the code for a new Token class, (derived from TokenHelper) which exposes
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I've got several people interested in contributing to ScintillaNET, now what we need to do is build a roadmap. I need to know what kinds of things that we should be putting into this next version, (including things in older versions, or stuff you may
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I had the question recently asked of me: When using an STS (Security Token Server), the PPID (PrivatePersonalIdentifier) is under the control of the STS. In other words, an STS has to take note of the RP (Relying Party) it is identifying for and generate
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I've come across the same issue three times in the last two days, so it's bloggin' time! CardSpace requires that the user's profile is on an NTFS drive. Currently, the problem you see if your profile is on FAT32, is that the CardSpace Identity selector
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Vittorio and I sat down and expanded his exploration on the managed card creation, and we came up with a Sample that details out what-you-need to know about creating managed Information Cards. Check it out: http://wcs.netfx3.com/files/folders/samples-july-ctp/entry4926.aspx
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I've posted a July-CTP ready version of my Introdouction to CardSpace with Internet Explorer 7.0. It's a fantastic primer on getting started with CardSpace, I hope you'll check it out; http://wcs.netfx3.com/files/folders/samples-july-ctp/entry4898.aspx
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Logging into a Website When signing into a website using CardSpace, the website has the choice of accepting two card types, Personal Cards or Managed Cards. Personal Cards are ones that you create the claim values yourself, support only a fixed set of
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I think I'll take a moment to plug a little peice of software that I'd built in the past, that I'm reviving and shoring up. ScintillaNET is a .NET binding for a fantastic little color-syntax-highlighting editor component called Scintilla. Scintilla is
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I hacked out this a few weeks back, and never got around to publishing it. I've not decided that this is the 'official' way to detect Information Card support in a browser, but it'll do until I can think of something better. I'd say something like, "see
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I had some trouble lately with scripts running on a 64bit version of Vista, when they were run with a 32 bit parent host process. After figuring out what was wrong, I wanted to be able to detect if I was running a 32-bit script engine under a 64-bit OS.
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