Marc strikes again! After the WIF 1.0 runtime, today it’s the turn of the SDK. The Windows Identity Foundation 1.0 SDK is now available on WebPI; once again, search for “identity” and you’ll find it (together with the runtime).
Hi all! I am typing this post from Shiphol, Amsterdam’s airport, where I am waiting to fly back to Seattle after a super-intense 2 days at TechEd Europe. As it is by now tradition for Microsoft’s big events, the video recording of the breakout sessions are available on Channel9 within 24 hours from…
Howdy folks! FYI: tomorrow at 2pm I am going to be at the Microsoft Press stand to do some book signing. Although you might not be especially interested in getting my scrawls, you might be interested in getting a free copy of Programming Windows Identity Foundation I am told that the first people…
After long months spent in my dark PM-cave in Redmond, it’s finally conferences season again! Last week I had the pleasure of presenting WIF 4.5 at TechEd Orlando and meet many of you; this Saturday I am flying to Amsterdam, and Tuesday I am scheduled to deliver a repeat of Stuart’s session on…
One of the key differences between using claims-based identity for one enterprise app and an app meant to be used on the web has to do with which identity providers are used, and how. Of course there are no hard and fast rules (and the distinction above makes less and less sense as…
Howdy! Last week I had the pleasure of increasing my curliness by a 3x factor thanks to the moist Orlando weather, which I visited for delivering a session on what’s new with WIF in the .NET framework 4.5. I also took advantage of the occasion for having detailed conversations with many of you…
They’re out, folks. Few minutes ago Marc flipped the switch on the refresh of the WIF tools for the RC of Visual Studio 2012. There’s not a lot of news, this was mostly a stabilization effort; if you want to learn about what the tools do, the original posts we did for Beta…
You already read about the new tools, and a bit about the new object model: now you have the chance to spend ~75 mins hearing about what makes WIF in .NET 4.5 sparkle, straight form the horse’s mouth! Tomorrow I am scheduled to deliver a whole session about it here at TechEd in…
It’s been a couple of years that we released the first samples showing how to take advantage of ACS from Windows Phone 7 applications; the iOS samples, released in the Summer, and the Windows8 Metro sample app last Fall demonstrated that the pattern applies to just any type of rich clients. Although we…
I am sure you guys are familiar with O’Reilly’s Deal of the Day initiative: well, today Programming Windows Identity Foundation is up! You can find it at http://oreil.ly/HmcIjp, just for today.