Monthly Archives: June 2007

Microsoft just released two kits to make it easier to integrate information cards into HTML and ASP.NET based applications. woohoo. A quick look reveals a new class for decrypting tokens and a helper to bridge the gap to membership. Looks … Continue reading →

UPDATE: new version available here. After I made some incremental changes and releases of my CardSpace control (found some bugs, got some feedback), I wanted to consolidate all the information along with a new version and some new features here. … Continue reading →

The Irish folks are great – not only they organized a fantastic community conference – they also recorded all the sessions… http://www.askasqlguru.com/category/imtc/ Have fun!  

In Zusammarbeit mit MSDN Deutschland habe ich einen ganzen Schwung Screencasts rund um sichere Softwareentwicklung erstellt (unterteilt in die Bereiche Allgemein, Client Entwicklung, ASP.NET, WCF und CardSpace). Die Startseite findet Ihr hier:http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/solve/knowhow/sicherheit/default.mspx  

I recently did four short screencasts for MSDN UK on various aspects of CardSpace. The focus more on self issued cards and are divided into the following topics: Implementation Strategies The Role of Certificates ASP.NET Integration WCF Integration Also find … Continue reading →

Sorry about the confusion – but I felt like adding some more “nice to have” features to the control. In this new version you can tell the control to render only if CardSpace is supported in the client browser. For … Continue reading →

Update: updated version here. I did another slight modification to my CardSpace control (see here and here) – it now fires a TokenSubmitted event where it passes the encrypted token back to the page. This makes for a nicer programming … Continue reading →

Last week I did a talk at Software Architect about Federation and CardSpace. I got almost the same question three times: “Can I use CardSpace in my own applications – without having to use WCF or a browser?” The scenarios where interesting … Continue reading →

Update: updated version here. I did some updates to the CardSpace control I posted last year. It now produces cleaner HTML which plays nicer with the Firefox plugin and has improved server side markup. A typical tag could look like … Continue reading →