Biztalk Services

Dennis announces the CTP of the Biztalk Services, one of the webbyest CTP we have: those are actually services, the only thing you need (if you want a quick start) is the SDK. There is much to be said about this new release, and I hope I’ll be able to play with it…

A Crowd of One

No, it’s not a reference to the noise I manage to produce all by myself ๐Ÿ™‚“A Crowd of One” is the very suggestive title of the latest book from John Henry Clippinger. It came out few days ago, and I’ve just got my fangs on a copy (usual Borders) on my way back…

4 years of blogging

As tradition requires (see exhibits a, b and c), here there’s the canonical, eigencelebrative post about the fact that it’s n years that I mantain this blog feed (where n=4). I could comment on how everything changed in this last 4 years, but for the time being I’ll spare you ๐Ÿ™‚ I’ll just remark…

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 the call to the STS returns, but if the STS code is…

Silverlight [WPF/E] and Windows CardSpace or plugging RIA in the Identity Metasystem

Silverlight [WPF/E] and Windows CardSpace or plugging RIA in the Identity Metasystem

[Edit: Added Silverlight SxS con WPF/E]  In short: this is a tutorial on invoking Cardspace from a Sliverlight [WPF/E] control and how to use Silverlight [WPF/E] for showing data from a token. So easy that a long haired architect can do it ๐Ÿ™‚Silverlight [WPF/E] is Microsoft’s technology for developing rich internet applications, but it is also going to…

Announcement Rumor

Announcement Rumor

[yes, you already figured that out: this was an APRIL FOOL ๐Ÿ™‚ ]    I usually don’t pay much attention to rumors, but this is just too zesty to ignore! I think I’ve just to throw one single word for giving you the measure of all this: satellites! I won’t tell you how…

Daniel Bartholomew provides a live instance of the WPF/E +CardSpace tutorial

Few days ago I have posted a tutorial on combining WPF/E and CardSpace for securing rich internet applications.Literally hours later Daniel Bartholomew, the great guy that extended dotnetnuke with a cardspace ready module, followed the tutorial and published the live example on the web! You can experience that by visiting his test page. Thank…