Survival of the Thinnest

Survival of the Thinnest

As you know, I occasionally like to post non-identity silly stuff: that’s one of those cases! I was digging in my old phones stash searching for a specific SIM card, and I couldn’t help noticing how the shape of the devices appeared to favor specific traits through time – which I like to…

Setting Up an ASP.NET Project with Organizational Authentication Requires an Organizational Account

Setting Up an ASP.NET Project with Organizational Authentication Requires an Organizational Account

I am hearing very positive feedback about the new organizational capabilities in the ASP.NET tools in VS2013 – which makes me very happy But that does not mean that we already achieved perfection, of course. Besides the new features request (do you have any? Write to us!) there are a couple of issues…

Protecting a Self-Hosted API with Microsoft.Owin.Security.ActiveDirectory

Protecting a Self-Hosted API with Microsoft.Owin.Security.ActiveDirectory

As you might have sensed, OWIN is slated to occupy a prominent role in our next wave of claims-based identity software (more details soon (I hope)).One question I am getting with increasing frequency is “just how lightweight is this OWIN thing? Is it going to impose heavy requirements that will prevent me from…