Monthly Archives: May 2009
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Today Microsoft hosted the Architecture Day. This is an interesting event where architects from different companies come together to talk about different topics (similar to the Regional Architect Forum). In this opportunity I proposed to do a presentation about Identity related to some work we did with a customer on Microsoft “Geneva”. So together with... read more
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Couple of months ago Ezequiel posted a summary of a very interesting article published on the Identity issue of the Architecture Journal. This article talked about different patterns on the federated identity world. Last week we had an interesting requirement to solve in a project and this article came to my mind. Specifically one of... read more
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This post had a lot of visits so I have updated it to work with Geneva Beta 2 1: public static ClaimsIdentityCollection ToClaimsIdentityCollection(this GenericXmlSecurityToken originalToken, TrustVersion trustVersion, X509Certificate2 signature, X509Certificate2 encryption) 2: { 3: var tokenReader = new StringReader(originalToken.TokenXml.OuterXml); 4: var reader = XmlReader.Create(tokenReader); 5: 6: var privateKeyToken = new X509SecurityToken(encryption); 7: var issuerKeyToken =... read more
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During the last couple of months I’ve been helping the Microsoft DPE team (namely Vittorio and Donovan) building the Identity Development Training Kit. It’s been great to work with such knowledgeable guys like them and with one of the best frameworks I’ve ever developed with: Microsoft Geneva Framework. The training kit covers a lot of... read more
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UPDATE: the code has been updated to work with WIF RTM. Thanks Nico! Providing the federation metadata for your STS will be very useful when a relying party want to establish a trust relationship with your STS. For instance, the Geneva Framework provides a FedUtil.exe tool that allows you to point to this metadata file... read more
