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17 August 2007
Windows Live ID CardSpace Support

Finally you can sign-in to sites that support Windows Live ID i.e. any Microsoft site, using an Information Card. Hopefully after this kind of commitment from Microsoft we will start seeing more sites add support for Information Cards. Like OpenID it would only be really successful once there are enough... Read More...

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Filed under: Cardspace, Identity

26 June 2007
Feature Complete ASP.NET CardSpace Control

In more Information Card related news Dominick Baier released a feature complete update to his ASP.NET CardSpace control. His control is probably the cleanest way of enabling your ASP.NET site as a Relying Party in the Indentity Metasystem. Key features includes: Clean markup and independence of the... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Cardspace, Identity

25 June 2007
Information Card Resources

New Information Card Logo Gone are the days of the little gray framed man serving as an indicator for sites accepting Information Cards. Microsoft announced a new graphical icon people can use on their sites to indicate that Information Cards are accepted there. Hopefully as Information Cards become... Read More...

2 comment(s)

Filed under: Cardspace, Identity, RubyOnRails, Ruby

04 May 2007
Community Server Upgrade

While waiting for a connecting flight out of Washington back home I had a couple of hours spare to get some of my long outstanding TODO's for http://dotnet.org.za done: Finally upgraded the site to Community Server 2007. CS2007 looks great and I've been wanting to do this for way too long. Upgraded... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, CS, dotnet.org.za, Cardspace, infocard

04 May 2007
Information Card Support Competition

To boost Information Card uptake Microsoft announced a competition where site owners can win one of the prizes listed below for adding Windows CardSpace support to their sites. All you have to do to qualify is implement InfoCard sign-in and sign-up functionality. See the announcement for more details... Read More...

2 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Cardspace, Google, Identity

08 February 2007
CardSpace HttpModule?

Another Identity related post - Seeing that there's an Apache Authentication Module available for Windows CardSpace I wonder how long before someone implements a HttpModule to enable similar drop-in blackbox functionality to CardSpace-enable ASP.NET sites? It should be very similar to what we've already... Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.NET, WCS, Cardspace, infocard

08 February 2007
My Blog/My OpenID

There's been a lot of news the past couple of days around the announcement of a collaboration agreement between OpenID role players (JanRain, SXIP Identity, VeriSign) and Microsoft's Windows CardSpace on the use of Windows CardSpace with the OpenID 2.0 specification. (OpenID is an open, decentralized... Read More...

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Filed under: WCS, Cardspace, Identity, OpenID

06 February 2007
The OTTO Store - The Future of Shopping?

A showcase of what's possible today using .NET 3.0 is the new OTTO Store that went live earlier this month. The OTTO Store is a next generation Smartclient client application jointly developed by SinnerSchrader Studios , Microsoft and OTTO using WPF, WCF and CardSpace. The application is deployed directly... Read More...

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Filed under: WCS, WCF, Cardspace, WPF, infocard, winfx

31 October 2006
Community Server - Windows CardSpace

A couple of days ago I enabled experimental Windows Cardspace support on http://dotnet.org.za . I mentioned that I'll post the source code and controls but with Tech-Ed Africa and some other work I never got around to posting it. So now the updated Community Server files is available here and the... Read More...

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Filed under: General, CS, dotnet.org.za, WCS, Cardspace

27 October 2006
Mono Status - Mono Meeting Slides

The slides posted from the recent Mono Meeting gives a very good indication of the current status of the project and the roadmap going forward. If you're interested in cross-platform .NET have a look at some of the slides posted on Miguel de Icaza's blog : Mono Roadmap, opening presentation.... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Vista, Open Source, Mono, WCS, WCF, Cardspace

18 October 2006
Windows CardSpace Support

This evening I eventually got around to finishing something on my blog I've been meaning to do for quite some time, I enabled experimental support for Windows CardSpace based logons to dotnet.org.za . (And other compliant identity selectors) If you've got an account on the site you'll see... Read More...

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Filed under: Vista, Cardspace