March 2008 Entries
Over the last few days I’ve been working what is basically a demonstration and debugging page for the SharpSTS site to allow people to dynamically build an Information Card object tag, then submit a card to it and see the results. It was problematic to say the least, with a major part of the problem being there is no real documentation about how the object tag is supposed to expose itself to a scripting environment. In order to detect information card support without Firefox bringing up its additional plugin required information bar you cannot embedded an information card object tag...
Last Tuesday I spent an hour on the phone over the Atlantic, and even further to record .NET Rocks. It’s on-line. As you can probably guess I’m talking about Information Cards again. (And I’m on a client site, so I can’t hear it. This may be a blessing ...) Technorati Tags: .NET Rocks,CardSpace,Information Card
Next month I will be presenting at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference on "Information Card - Beyond the HTML Page" Information Card promises to provide a secure way for users to provide login and identity information and there are plenty of samples on how to use it for web site logins. But what if you want to go beyond that? What if you want to use it in rich client software? What if you want to be a managed identity provider? This session aims to cover how you can take information cards beyond web sites and onto the desktop...
Dominick and David beat me to the punch; last night I hit the "publish" button on codeplex for SharpSTS; a C# library to allow you to develop Information Card Security Token Services. As with all open source projects there is still a bunch of work to do; as it stands we have a command line STS which should allow you to get started. Well; if you can work out from the source code what you need to do :) Over the coming weeks and months I, as dictator, Dominick Baier and David Christiansen hope to deliver a stable,...
nxtgen Oxford has a bunch of events to take you into summer; What:Even More Mobile with Roger WhiteheadThis talk will builds on the introductory talk Roger gave last year on Windows Mobile Development. This new talk will cover general issues when developing Windows Mobile applications as well as demonstrating specific features of .net Compact Framework 3.5 and Windows Mobile 6. Roger will use Visual Studio 2008 during his presentation and will also cover the important new features this offers for Windows Mobile developers. Roger will cover the basics of form design, navigation, data handling, unit testing and deploying Windows...
The archive of the episode is now available on Channel9; it’s rather quiet I’m afraid, probably due to the transatlantic phone lines. The resources I mentioned will eventually wind their way onto the geekSpeak blog; but I’ll put them here for the meantime. Kim Cameron’s web site is www.identityblog.com; including "The 7 laws of identity" whitepaper My own blog posts on cardspace/Information Cards; http://idunno.org/Tags/cardspace/default.aspx Extended Validation SSL certificates The difference between Managed cards and Self issued Dominick’s asp.net control for Information Cards The Simple STS; a simple demonstration security token service. Microsoft’s asp.net...