Category Archives: IdentityModel

Try "Zermatt" and give Feedback

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Dominick Baier

The last week I spent some time exploring parts of the “Zermatt” framework – some things are really cool – some I have mixed feelings about. The team is still in a quite early stage where design decisions and directions … Continue reading →

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Skiing in "Zermatt"

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Dominick Baier

Today, Microsoft finally announced the first public version of their .NET identity framework code named “Zermatt”. The most important things you get from this framework are: APIs for the token/claims related heavy crypto lifting Supporting classes for claims aware applications … Continue reading →

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Using IdentityModel: Useful Extension Methods for Serializing Claim Sets

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Dominick Baier

As a follow up to my last post – the following extension methods make it easy to manually serialize claim sets: public static XElement Serialize(  this ClaimSet set, IEnumerable<Type> knownTypes){    DataContractSerializer dcs = new DataContractSerializer(        set.GetType(),        knownTypes,        int.MaxValue,        false,        true,        … Continue reading →

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Using IdentityModel: Serializing Claim Sets

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Dominick Baier

Both Claim and ClaimSet are decorated with DataContract/DataMember attributes. This means they are made for serialization. And this makes sense – maybe you want to forward a claim set (server to server) or send a claim set from server to … Continue reading →

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Software Architect 2008

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Dominick Baier

Thanks to everyone who attended my IdentityModel talk at Software Architect. You can have all the code I showed you during my talk – just send me a private message or leave a comment. Most of the demos are online … Continue reading →

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OpenID Phishing Demo

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Dominick Baier

Funny and educational: http://idtheft.fun.de/

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Using IdentityModel: Tracing

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Dominick Baier

While reading through some of the code of System.IdentityModel, I noticed that there is some diagnostics tracing going on. Just add a trace listener for the source ‘System.IdentityModel’ to your config file. HTH

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Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Dominick Baier

This little helper might be useful when you are working with ADFS, but want to use the IdentityModel types in your app: public static ClaimSet ToClaimSet(this SingleSignOnIdentity identity){    List<Claim> claims = new List<Claim>();     claims.Add(new Claim(identity.NameType, identity.Name, Rights.Identity));     foreach … Continue reading →

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InfoCardSelector is now on Codeplex

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Dominick Baier

I finally found a new home for my ASP.NET InfoCard control: http://www.codeplex.com/InfoCardSelector If you feel like contributing or suggesting new features, you can contact me via this page.

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Using Information Cards in ASMX Web Services

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Dominick Baier

As I wrote here – an Information Card token is just a string. This means that (with the help of some extra plumbing) you can seamlessly integrate cards into “legacy” technologies. Here’s a sample walkthrough for ASMX web services. To … Continue reading →

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