Over the last years I have worked with several incarnations of what is now called the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). Throughout that time I continuously built a little helper library that made common tasks easier to accomplish. Now that WIF is near to its release, I put that library (now called Thinktecture.IdentityModel) on Codeplex.

The library includes:

• Extension methods for
• IClaimsIdentity, IClaimsPrincipal, IPrincipal
• XmlElement, XElement, XmlReader
• RSA, GenericXmlSecurityToken
• Extensions to ClaimsAuthorizationManager (inspecting messages, custom principals)
• Logging extensions for SecurityTokenService
• Simple STS (e.g. for REST)
• Helpers for WS-Federation message handling (e.g. as a replacement for the STS WebControl)
• Sample security tokens and security token handlers
• simple access token with expiration
• compressed security token
• API and configuration section for easy certificate loading
• Diagnostics helpers
• ASP.NET WebControl for invoking an identity selector (e.g. CardSpace)

I have also added some samples and a rudimentary API documentation. You can download the whole package identitymodel.codeplex.com.

Feel free to contact me via the forum when you have questions or found a bug.