Using the JWT handler for Implementing “Poor Man”’s Delegation/ActAs by Vibro.NET

After much abstract thought (very well received! thank you! :-)) it’s time to get back to some good old C#, or you’ll think I’ve gone soft :-) Say that you have a Web application protected via claims-based identity. Say that your application occasionally...

Using AAL to Secure Calls to a Classic WCF Service by Vibro.NET

[you do remember that this is my personal blog and those are my own opinions, right? ;-)] After the releases we’ve been publishing in the last few months, I am sure you have little doubt that REST is something we are really interested in supporting. The...

Fun with Blink(1) and Claims: Unboxing and Identity Providers’ Synesthesia by Vibro.NET

[ WARNING : this post has no business value whatsoever, and that is by design. Please do not take any of this post as something you’d do in your applications. I got a new toy and I am just goofing around with it :-)] If you’ve been reading this blog through...

Access Control & Core Directory Available at No Charge by Vibro.NET

Folks, this is big. Check out the announcement that went out yesterday on the Windows Azure blog. In fact, I am going to quote it here in its entirety! Here goes: Identity Management and Access Control are anchors for virtually all critical processes...

Introducing the Developer Preview of the JSON Web Token Handler for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 by Vibro.NET

The JWT handler class diagram, spanning 3 monitors :-)   Today I am really, really happy to announce the developer preview of a new extension that will make the JSON Web Token format (JWT) a first-class citizen in the .NET Framework: the JSON Web...
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A Refresh of the Windows Azure Authentication Library Developer Preview by Vibro.NET

Three months ago we released the first developer preview of the Windows Azure Authentication Library . Today we are publishing a refresh of the developer preview , with some important (and at times radical) improvements. We already kind of released this...
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Provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory Tenant as an Identity Provider in an ACS Namespace by Vibro.NET

Thanks to the improvements introduced in the latest refresh of the developer preview of Windows Azure Active Directory, we are finally able to support a scenario you often asked for: provisioning a Windows Azure Active Directory tenant as an identity...
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Windows Azure AD, Graph API and AAL on the Cloud Cover Show by Vibro.NET

Hi all! I am briefly emerging from my yearly time off to notify you that my good friends Nick & Nate just published the latest episode of the Cloud Cover show, featuring your furry PM (I waited until the how’s recording to shave my goatee!) chatting...
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New Drop of the Identity Training Kit Shows WIF in .NET 4.5, VS 2012 by Vibro.NET

You asked for it, we got it done We just published on the download center a new drop of the Identity Developer Training Kit , updated to use WIF 4.5 and the new tools for VS2012 RC. The new release contains just the absolute essential to wrap your head...
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Automatic Migration of Access Control Service Version 1.0 by Windows Azure

Last year, we announced the sunset of Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) version 1.0 and the availability of the ACS 1.0 Migration Tool that helps customers to easily migrate their ACS 1.0 namespaces to ACS 2.0. We’re excited to share that...
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Authenticating Users from Passive IPs in Rich Client Apps – via ACS by Vibro.NET

It’s been a couple of years that we released the first samples showing how to take advantage of ACS from Windows Phone 7 applications; the iOS samples, released in the Summer,  and the Windows8 Metro sample app last Fall demonstrated that the pattern...
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The WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta on CloudCover! by Vibro.NET

The latest CloudCover episode features yours truly endlessly rambling about the new WIF tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta . If you want to see the tools in action, rather than reading through yesterday’s posts , tune in ! Thanks to Wade for having me again...
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Brand New ACS Walkthrough on the New Windows Azure Developer Center by Vibro.NET

  By now, I am sure, you already heard about the flurry of improvements that swept the Azure Land. If you didn’t, please take a moment to go through Bob’s post here : socks will be blown, the Windows Azure team did an *amazing* job. If you explore...
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BlobShare Sample: ACS-Protected File Sharing by Vibro.NET

Weather is not that good this Sunday afternoon, and the wife warned me already yesterday that today she was going to catch up with the AI class ; hence, I think I am going to break the blog-silence and spend some time describing BlobShare , a little jewel...
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