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The Inherent Flaw in Third-Party Authentication
For my current project, I’ve been researching Facebook Connect. As I’ve been digging into it, I’ve been thinking about the huge vulnerability in using third-party authentication methods such as...
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Top 10 Upcoming Microsoft Releases That Developers Should be Excited About
1. Visual Studio 2010 It all starts with the IDE. While the tool has been built to provide a development environment for the new .NET 4.0 framework, there are several other features that make Visual...
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Windows Identity Foundation RC Available
The release candidate (RC) for Windows Identity Foundation (formerly the Geneva Framework) is now available for download. The latest release has several new features and fixes: Refactored...
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Architecture versus Code
In a recent interview, Grady Booch responded to a question regarding people that are skeptical about overblown architectures with a very succinct and ultimately dead-on answer: The most important...
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Windows Identity Foundation RTM is Here
Less than two weeks after the release of the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) RC, the final RTM version has been pushed out! Check out the official announcement on Vibro.NET or download it directly...
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It could just be a coincidence, but I ran across this message board posting where somebody suggests that Microsoft name their product “Windows Identity Foundation”. However, this was three years ago!...
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Under the Hood: My other blog
I’ve started writing for my company’s blog: Under the Hood. I’ll still regularly post here to my blog, but definitely hop over there to check out the wide range of articles from my co-workers at...
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Modifying the AD FS 2.0 Passive Federation Endpoint
Out of the box, Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 comes bundled with several endpoints to support different protocols (WS-Trust, WS-Federation, etc.), credential types, and security...
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Refreshing Claims in a WIF Claims-Aware Application
With Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), it’s fairly simple and well-documented on how to consume claims in your claims-aware web application. What isn’t entirely clear is how to reload these claims...
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Getting BlogEngine.NET to Work in a Web Farm
The Problem I recently needed to add a blog to a customer’s site, and after doing some comparison shopping of the open source blog software out there – dasBlog and BlogEngine.NET being the most popular...
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