Category Archives: IdentityModel

Wow – I can’t tell you how happy and relieved I am to write this post ;) I started to work with what’s now called WIF approximately two years ago – and built various security token services for customers, demos … Continue reading →

In this last part of the series (see here and here) I want to show you how to use the WIF/SL integration ClaimsIdentitySessionManager to request tokens and talk to WIF secured services. The ClaimsIdentityManager registers as an ApplicationService in SL. … Continue reading →

With SL4’s support for NTLM and the WIF integration bits, you can now easily request tokens from ADFS2 (or any other token service that supports Windows authentication) in single-sign-on style. Here’s the quick walk-through… Enable the right endpoint in ADFS2You … Continue reading →

This was one of my most popular blog post in the recent time (please read it first to get the necessary background information). I thought I give this another shot with the new SL/WIF integration. There are other ways to … Continue reading →

At MIX, Caleb did a talk about the new Silverlight/WIF integration classes that “ship” with the latest identity training kit. Since this is a topic that comes up really frequently – I had a first look. The integration code consists … Continue reading →

RTM finally ;) Book here.Code here.More info here. Enjoy!!!

Mein geschätzter Kollege Vittorio Bertocci führt einen 2-Tägigen Workshop zum Thema Windows Identity Foundation in München durch. Das ist bestimmt eine gute Gelegenheit sich mal abseits vom Projektalltag mit dem Thema genauer zu beschäftigen. Wenn danach alle (un)Klarheiten beseitigt sind, … Continue reading →

The v1 beta of StarterSTS has an updated relying party configuration section. This allows to “plugin” the STS into ADFS2 or Sharepoint as a claims provider. Here’s a quick walkthrough for ADFS2: Register StarterSTS as claims provider in ADFSThis is … Continue reading →

Pablo wrote a post yesterday giving some background information on how session tokens are protected in WIF – here some additional info for WCF: The ws* bindings in WCF establish a security session by default (via WS-SecureConversation). This has some … Continue reading →

This questions comes up every once in a while.. Since WCF Data Services is just a normal WCF service (using the web programming model), all the typical security APIs and extensibility points apply. That said, depending on your scenario you … Continue reading →