Functionality area Major changes made Product Name “Geneva” Framework replaces “Zermatt”. Claims Object Model ClaimsPrincipal.Current is replaced with Thread.CurrentPrincipal. Claims.Issuer is of type string instead of IClaimsIdentity. Authentication information is emitted as separate claims. STS Per call Instance. GetScope() is now abstract now. GetOutSubjects() renamed to GetOutputClaimsIdentity() Asynchronous programming added. FAM T:Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.FederationAuthenticationModule refactored as T:Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.WsFederatedAuthenticationModule.... read more
Definition “A Security Token Service (STS) is the plumbing that builds, signs, and issues security tokens using the interoperable protocols…” “The “Zermatt” Framework makes it easy to build your own STS. It’s up to you to figure out how to implement the logic, or rules that drive it (often referred to as security policy).” Active vs... read more
Zermatt is a set of .NET Framework classes. It is a framework for implementing claims-based identity in your applications. When you build claims-aware applications, the user presents an identity to your application as a set of claims. One claim could be the user’s name, another might be an e-mail address. The idea here is that... read more
The Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building composite smart client applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within Visual Studio. New In This Release > Full support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. This... read more
This is a release candidate, and may have bugs. We have not completed testing the factory. Give us feedback on the discussion board. Download
This is a beta release and still has known bugs. We have not completed testing the factory. Download
New Features All solution and projects migrated to Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. DockPanelWorkspace and FormWorkspace added to SCSFContrib.CompositeUI.WinForms project. Action Catalog Service added to SCSFContrib.Services project. Added Visual Studio templates and installer for Trusted and Untrusted modules in the WPF/CAB Shell. New Samples BankTeller implementation using a pure WPF application. Demo Application... read more
This is the first drop for the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. Now in this release The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory includes support for Visual Studio 2008. This release does not support Visual Studio 2005. We fixed a few bugs that... read more
In this post we described a bug in the Ajax Control Toolkit v1.0.10920 that caused the AutoComplete Extender to behave incorrectly. The main problem was that we were getting ‘undefined’ as the list of suggested words when using purely numeric values, as shown in the following figure: Fortunately, the Ajax Toolkit Team managed to solve... read more
With Web Client Software Factory, when you require your application to store information in the session state, you can use the Composite Web Application Block class StateValue to store the information. This class supports code that runs both in a Web server environment (the session is available, and data is stored there) and outside of... read more