We’ve been promising it for a while, and today it is finally reality Alex and Brandon announced from the AD team blog that we started in earnest the effort of open sourcing our developer libraries, with three very exciting projects: The JWT Token Handler. One of the most heavily used components in our…
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…
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…
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…
The November issue of the MSDN Magazine features an article from yours truly, titled “Secure ASP.NET Web API with Windows Azure AD and Microsoft OWIN Components”. Thanks to the awesome editorial team and the precious input from Daniel Roth and Howard Dierking (thanks guys!) the article is various notches above the rants in…
Courtesy of the daylight saving switch, which made the weekend just a tad longer, here there’s a quick post to show a relatively small but powerful feature of ADAL, the AuthenticationParameters class.In a nutshell: I’ll show you how you can write a client to consume a Web API secured by AD – knowing…
We are going to publish a sample doing justice to this scenario soon, but in the meanwhile I am getting questions about this multiple times per day hence I think it’s time to whip up a super-quick post and unblock some of you guys. Wait, what am I talking about? Perhaps I rushed…
Well, I’ve basically wrote most of the post already in the extra-long title! The ASP.NET project templates in VS2013 for multiple organizations apps contain a design choice which appears to be causing grief to many developers. In this post I am going to describe the issue (and show you how to make it…
Few weeks ago I gave you a taste of how you can use the modern ASP.NET OWIN stack for securing a Web API with tokens obtained from the latest ADFS version, the one in Windows Server 2012 R2. The flow I described was definitely easier than the one you’d have to implement should…
Ahh joy, after a wait few weeks long I an finally typing on by brand new purple type cover 2, snapped to a shiny new Surface Pro 2! I just *have* to use this guy, and what better mixed workload than writing a blog post? That will exercise Visual Studio, the portal, Live…