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An Identity Provider and its STS: writing a custom STS with the October Beta of the Geneva Framework

[Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] In the former installment I blabbered a bit about how an STS

Windows CardSpace helps Eduserve to fuel DreamSpark authentication

I am sure you are all more than familiar with DreamSpark , the amazing (YES, amazing. Bravo Milo!) offer through which Microsoft gives access to developer & designer tools at no charge. That requires, naturally, to be able to prove that you are indeed

Setting up a quick & dirty STS which supports smartcard backed managed cards... using Zermatt

Just back from vacation. The tan barely started to fade, and here I am already playing with the new shiny toy :-). Did you experiment with Zermatt by now? As Kim mentions the samples (and the documentation) are an excellent way to start, and I am sure

Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework

Ahh, I’ve been looking forward for this post for a looong time. We just made available for download the bits of the Beta of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework . “ Zermatt ” is the codename of a .NET framework that helps developers build claims-aware

Hide svc extension from your REST services with the URLrewrite module for IIS7

I am now focusing exclusively on identity & services, true, but certain news about former interests of mine are just too good not to share. While evangelizing the web capabilities of WCF introduced in the framework 3.5, one of the most recurring questions

New version of the Biztalk Services SDK available, now with support for managed cards

Almost one year ago I briefly mentioned the Biztalk Service SDK, here and here . A new version has recently been made available: you would not believe the amount of new features that were added to it in this timeframe. The main reason of excitement for

WCF & REST at MIX08: The Tale of MySpace APIs

[Update: we received notice that not all of you were able to download the video . We fixed the issue already friday night, it should work for everybody. Enjoy! Thanks to Terje for the first headsup] Yesterday we finally had the session about the making

CardSpace & surveillance

Well, don't get fooled. I'm not going to make any big philosophical considerations about technology and privacy (though I may do that in the future), but I will talk about the little project I've put together after three gintonics & the MIX party

While I was sleeping...

[There's not much tech content in this post. You read it all at your risk :-) the next posts will get the technical discussion back on track from where we left it a couple months ago] From the all time record of 17 posts in June, this feed dropped to

Channel9 parla italiano!

Dear English readers, this post announces the first Channel9 video entirely in Italian language . As such, the rest of the post is going to be in Italian. E allooooora :) Dopo mesi che meditiamo sull'iniziativa, abbiamo deciso di dare spazio su channel9

A (fiscal) year in review

It's that time of the year again: the end of June marks the end of the fiscal year, and for us it's time to reflect on what we've done in the past 12 months. Vast majority of the things I've done are internal-only or with high profile customers that can't

Build castles in the Cloud with the new drop of the BizTalk Services SDK

Yesterday night I was going through the unresolved parts of the inbox, a fairly boring task, when Dennis rescued me: he chimed in via Messenger reminding me that a new version of the BizTalk Services SDK is out. It wasn't hard to switch my attention to

A RESTful CardSpace: sending tokens using the new WCF AJAX Services in Orcas

In short: this is the description of a sample that sends a CardSpace-obtained token to an AJAX service implemented with the new Orcas features. Few posts ago I published a tutorial about using CardSpace with Silver. While talking about it with Kushal

A Silver CardSpace: securing Orcas Workflow Services with Windows CardSpace

In short: this is a step by step tutorial for creating from scratch a Workflow Service with the Beta 1 release of Visual Studio codename "Orcas". The tutorial shows how to secure the service with Windows CardSpace, how to create a client application on

Debugging STS code

Periodically I hear people having issues with debugging STS code from CardSpace based scenarios. When you invoke an STS by selecting a managed card, you do that from the private desktop; that means that you can;t access your interactive session until
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