Category Archives: WCF

IIS & RESTful Services #FAIL

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Dominick Baier

really? when will super duper IIS finally support non-Windows accounts for HTTP authentication? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2010/07/21/odata-and-authentication-part-6-custom-basic-authentication.aspx see here for a complete module including IIS management integration: http://custombasicauth.codeplex.com

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WIF Configuration – Part 1: ServiceConfiguration

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Dominick Baier

WIF supports a flexible configuration system and various ways to programmatically interact with that configuration. This flexibility comes in two ways: Named configuration elements that you can selectively load (service & token handler configuration) Configuration extensibility (e.g. for token handlers, … Continue reading →

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Using Silverlight to Access WIF secured WCF Services

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Dominick Baier

This topic comes up quite often recently – so I hope the title is search engine friendly. Disclaimer: At the time of this writing, the current version of Silverlight is v3 and WIF is in beta 2. Hopefully this will … Continue reading →

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Guide to WCF Extensibility

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Dominick Baier

WCF extensibility is not trivial – this looks like it could become a very valuable source…

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WCF Source Code for Download

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Dominick Baier

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx

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Claims Authorization in WIF Beta 2 – ASP.NET and WCF Integration

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Dominick Baier

In the previous post I illustrated how the basic claims authorization infrastructure in WIF (formerly Geneva) works. In this post I want to focus more on how claims authorization behaves when integrated in WCF and ASP.NET. ASP.NETIn addition to using … Continue reading →

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Defeating SSL

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Dominick Baier

Not a really new paper – but definitely recommended reading. Some lessons learned: Moxie is not really attacking SSL – but uses HTTP to bypass HTTPS. Switch to SSL as early as possible – but that might be too late … Continue reading →

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Updated Starter STS

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Dominick Baier

I just uploaded a minor update to the Starter STS sample to codeplex. This release adds more options for realm checking (see the allowKnownRealmsOnly config switch) as well as Information Card issuance. As always – feedback is welcome! http://startersts.codeplex.com

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Thinktecture WS-Federation Metadata Generator

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Dominick Baier

Mr. Metadata strikes back! This time with a generator/wizard for WS-Federation Metadata language. This makes it very easy to create documents that can be consumed by Geneva Server or FedUtil. More info here.

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Krise? Nein! „Service-Orientierung heute und morgen“: 5 Tage volle Power und praktisches Wissen

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Dominick Baier

Sind Sie auch müde, ständig von „Krise“ und „Einschränkungen“ zu lesen? Sind Sie nicht jemand, der sich immer weiter entwickeln möchte und fit für die heutigen Problemstellungen aber auch vorbereitet für zukünftige Herausforderungen sein möchte? Wir haben da was für … Continue reading →

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