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February 2007 - Posts

Trouble Installing .NET 2.0....

If you had a Beta version of Framework 2.0 installed on your machine and are moving to a the RTM version, then you might have some trouble with getting the correct version of mscoree.dll in place. The reason is Microsoft Installer's resilence feature
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Daylight savings changes and WCF Security Processing

I had a question today from a customer who was concerned that his WCF application might start to behave erratically due to the new Daylight savings schedule. Then I realized that there has been quite some noise around this area and people are predicting
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WS-Federation Passive

I have discussed about Federation before. This post discusses Federation from the active context. "Active" means that the client is a smart client capable of doing encryption and signing and can actively participate in the Federation protocol. There are
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Asymmetric tokens and Mixed-Mode Security

When you are using a X.509 Certificate as the client authentication token in Mixed-Mode Security - apart from signing the Timestamp WCF will sign the 'To' header as well. This is to prevent a client spoofing attack by a rougue service. Consider the situation

WCF Security Modes

WCF supports three types of Security. They are, Transport Security Mixed-Mode Security Message Security Let's discuss the various Security Modes below. Transport Security is applied at the transport byte stream below the message layer. The message does
 
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