Monthly Archives: October 2010

I just uploaded a new drop of StarterSTS. This release has many changes and new features, e.g.: Built-in support for Windows Azure Caching New REST endpoint Federated Sign-Out Extended tracing (including real time tracing to a WCF service and logging … Continue reading →

See the previous posts first. WIF includes an API to manually request tokens from a token service. This gives you more control over the request and more flexibility since you can use your own token caching scheme instead of being … Continue reading →

See parts 1, 2 and 3 first. In this part we will finally build a client for our federated service. There are basically two ways to accomplish this. You can use the WCF built-in tooling to generate client and configuration … Continue reading →

In part 1 of this series I briefly gave an overview of the ADFS / WS-Trust infrastructure. In part 2 we created a basic WCF service that uses ADFS for authentication. This part will walk you through the steps to … Continue reading →

OK – so let’s first start with a simple WCF service and connect that to ADFS 2 for authentication. The service itself simply echoes back the user’s claims – just so we can make sure it actually works and to … Continue reading →

A lot has been written already about passive federation and integration of WIF and ADFS 2 into web apps. The whole active/WS-Trust feature area is much less documented or covered in articles and blogs. Over the next few posts I … Continue reading →