CardSpace & Workflow Foundation: creating managed cards as a workflow activity

CardSpace & Workflow Foundation: creating managed cards as a workflow activity

Recently I posted mainly about CardSpace, but my mission is actually about all our application server technologies! Workflow Foundation is the perfect tool for describing & driving processes: and what is the generation of a managed card, if not a step in account provisioning? So I wrote a barebone sample activity, which wraps Garrett’s…

WS-MetadataExchange updated: it’s all about the resource, baby!

Oh joy!The WS-MetadaExchange specification has been updated. You can find the new spec here: http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/mex/WS-MetadataExchange.pdf. Notable differences: The use of specifications from the WS-Management suite, namely WS-Transfer. Now the first method of retrieving metadata is treating them as WS-Transfer resources The chance of embedding metadata directly in endpoint references The request-response protocol for…

CardSpace: cascading managed cards, or chains or trust

CardSpace: cascading managed cards, or chains or trust

The product is not out yet, and I already think of the stuff I’d like in vNext.. 🙂 Today’s wishful thinking is about chains of trust. Imagine that your department of driving licences (DDL) issues you a managed card which represents the digital counterpart of your phisical license card. Your bank will presumably…