Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 11 Part III: Connecting With a Business STS (e.g. ADFS2)

Welcome to the third walkthrough of the new WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta! This is about using the tools to trust a business identity provider, such as an ADFS2 instance. The complete series include Using the Local Development STS, manipulating common config settings, connecting with a business STS, get an F5…

Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 11 Part IV: Get an F5 Experience with ACS2

Welcome to the last walkthrough (for now) of the new WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta! This is my absolute favorite, where we show you how to take advantage of ACS2 from your application with just a few clicks. The complete series include Using the Local Development STS, manipulating common config settings,…

Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 11 Part I: Using The Local Development STS

Welcome to the first walkthrough of the new WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta! This is about using the local STS feature to test your application on your dev machine. The complete series include Using the Local Development STS, manipulating common config settings, connecting with a business STS, get an F5 experience…

Windows Identity Foundation Tools for Visual Studio 11 Part II: Manipulating Common WIF Settings From the UI

Welcome to the second walkthrough of the new WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta! This is about using the tools to modify common settings of your app without editing the web.config. The complete series include Using the Local Development STS, manipulating common config settings, connecting with a business STS, get an F5…

Windows Identity Foundation in the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta: Tools, Samples, Claims Everywhere

Windows Identity Foundation in the .NET Framework 4.5 Beta: Tools, Samples, Claims Everywhere

The first version of Windows Identity Foundation was released in November 2009, in form of out of band package. There were many advantages in shipping out of band, the main one being that we made WIF available to both .NET 3.5 and 4.0, to SharePoint, and so on. The other side of the…