Govind's WebLog
Patterns and Practices: WCF Security Guidance available online
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team has created a guide for WCF security....
Author: govindr Date: 04/01/2008
503 Server Unavailable failure with IIS 7.0
When working with IIS 7.0 in Vista if you are seeing this failure trying to access the webserver,...
Author: govindr Date: 08/30/2007
Reliable Messaging and SecurityToken validation
One of the things that have come up many times is how the service could stop a client from retrying...
Author: govindr Date: 08/27/2007
Handling Mismatched Trust Versions on the Client
Federation Clients might have scenarios where it is talking to a Service and STS that don't have the...
Author: govindr Date: 08/21/2007
Security element and "actor" attribute.
SOAP 1.1 defines the attribute "actor" that can be on any SOAP header which will indicate who the...
Author: govindr Date: 07/17/2007
Updated Re-Serialize SAML token
There has been a lot of interest around this and hence I have attached some code listing to this...
Author: govindr Date: 05/03/2007
WSE VS addin fails to generate WSE proxy in 64-bit machine
If you are using WSE and are a VS developer, you would be familar with the WSE Visual Studio Addin...
Author: govindr Date: 03/07/2007
Using Visual Studio Intellisense to Edit WCF Configuration files.
If you are using Visual Studio 2005 below is how you can enable intellisense to edit your WCF config...
Author: govindr Date: 03/06/2007
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...
Author: govindr Date: 02/24/2007
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...
Author: govindr Date: 02/20/2007
WS-Federation Passive
I have discussed about Federation before. This post discusses Federation from the active context....
Author: govindr Date: 02/19/2007
Asymmetric tokens and Mixed-Mode Security
When you are using a X.509 Certificate as the client authentication token in Mixed-Mode Security -...
Author: govindr Date: 02/07/2007
WCF Security Modes
WCF supports three types of Security. They are, Transport Security Mixed-Mode Security Message...
Author: govindr Date: 02/07/2007
Configure SSL in IIS 7.0
If you are confused looking at the IIS 7.0 UI, you are not alone. I recently had to configure SSL on...
Author: govindr Date: 01/31/2007
Security Header Layout
There are four different security header layout that can be specified in WCF. The values are defined...
Author: govindr Date: 01/22/2007
WCF Support in Compact Framework
In a nutshell, .NET Compact Framework 3.5 supported features for WCF include: messaging-layer...
Author: govindr Date: 01/09/2007
Configuring HTTP in Windows Vista
Hosting a WCF service on a HTTP endpoint on Windows Vista has some issues given that you are not...
Author: govindr Date: 01/09/2007
Federation and Bearer Tokens
The latest WS-Trust spec (yet to be ratified by OASIS) introduces a concept called Bearer Tokens....
Author: govindr Date: 11/22/2006
.NET 3.0 RTM Documentation available
Below is the link to RTM documentation for .NET 3.0...
Author: govindr Date: 11/09/2006
Windows Vista RC -> RTM!!!
Windows Vista was signed off today to RTM. Windows Vista will release with Office 2007 on November...
Author: govindr Date: 11/08/2006
.Net Framework 3.0 is Live!!
Get the latest version of .Net Framework 3.0 at...
Author: govindr Date: 11/07/2006
It's Official - Vista, Office 2007 Bussiness launch is Nov 30.
It is official now. Vista and Office 2007 will release for bussinesses on Nov 30. So the consumer...
Author: govindr Date: 11/02/2006
Debugging WCF - Traces and Message Logs
There has been enough posts on this topic. But this topic cannot be over emphasized. The best way to...
Author: govindr Date: 11/02/2006
Colorful Vista...
Microsoft shows off Vista packaging. What is inside is much more exciting. :-) So...are you ready...
Author: govindr Date: 11/01/2006
Re-Serialize SAML token
In a Federation Scenario a client might want to access the services by using a SAML token that was...
Author: govindr Date: 10/24/2006
Search with msdewey.com
Live.com's new search interface is www.msdewey.com. Who said Microsoft can't be cool? This is a very...
Author: govindr Date: 10/20/2006
Federation
As you are moving to Web Services world one of the buzz words that you will hear time and again is...
Author: govindr Date: 10/18/2006
Supporting Tokens
Web Services Message Security has the concept of Primary and Supporting Tokens. The Primary token is...
Author: govindr Date: 10/16/2006
WSE and MTOM
If you are using WSE 3.0 and MTOM and was wondering why the client code is not streaming the...
Author: govindr Date: 10/12/2006
Writing a Custom Message Interceptor when Security is enabled
A custom message Interceptor give you access to the message as the message goes through the...
Author: govindr Date: 10/11/2006
WCF Encrypts Signatures by default in Message Security
When you are building your application with security enabled you will see that all your signatures...
Author: govindr Date: 10/10/2006
Using Binary Encoding in WCF
I recently had a question from someone on using Binary Encoding and how performance of their...
Author: govindr Date: 10/09/2006