Authentication

One of the thorns in the sides of all Internet users is the plethora of accounts they need to keep track of for the various websites they use throughout the day. Most of the folks running these sites don’t particularly want to create an account management system, but they need to just so they can…

Michael Bird and John Hidey at Sharp Dudes recently discussed with Zhiming Xue (Dr. "Z") their application migration experience moving from Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4. Using demos, they focused on discussing two common areas of a typical multitier web application - form or web…

This screencast shows how AppFabric Access Control (AC) can be used to provide identity federation, trust delegation, service authorization and integration with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to control access to services based on Windows Azure. In the demo,…

A team led by Eugenio Pace at p&p has been busy working on the Claims based Identity and Access Control guide. We are thrilled to announce the availability of early drafts. Check out the CodePlex project site at http://claimsid.codeplex.com.In this video, Eugenio Pace gives an overview…

In yesterday’s episode we very briefly touched the identity and authentication part of the demo where, on the self-service site, the attendee registers using Windows Live ID.   In this episode we go a lot deeper. Identity and authentication is hard.  Simple, scalable and secure…