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Conference session materials from DevWeek 2010

Thanks a lot to everybody who came to one, two or all three of my sessions at DevWeek 2010. Much appreciated, and it was fun, again :)
As promised, here are the slides and the samples used during the sessions – see you next year in London!

• WCF tips & tricks from the field  - a selection [Slides]   [Demos]
• WCF4: what’s new? … what’s better, what’s worse? [Slides]   [Demos]
• Communicating through the Cloud: Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus [Slides]   [Demos]

Off to TechDays Sweden next week…

Free PDF Book Download: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control – powered by thinktecture

Get it now.

thinktecture’s Dominick Baier has spent quite a lot of time helping to build this fantastic official Microsoft guide. If you need to grok the concepts and technical details about how to do claims-based identity and access control on the Windows and .NET platform, that is the PDF you should carry around all day.

Dominick put all his vast and deep experience into this project. Thanks Dom.

 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c09ffe4-43dd-4fcc-be35-c897c9bc4386

WIF-based applications in the wild - Dominick Baier and Christian Weyer on .NET Rocks!

In part three of .NET Rocks' virtual three part series on all things identity, claims and WIF, Dominick and I are talking about using and applying the Windows Identity Foundation and ADFSv2 in the wild, beyond the Hello Claim levels being covered elsewhere.
This interview contains a number a small tidbits gathered from several customer projects.

Hope you enjoy it - and feel free to get in touch with us when you need help in this new but exciting world.
Weyer and Baier on WIF

Your identity, my identity - our identity! thinktecture rocks you with claims & more

Dominick managed to update all our thinktecture official identity bits and pieces to the recent WIF RC.

• Starter STS 0.95RC
• StarterRP 0.95RC
• thinktecture.IdentityModel 0.5RC

Go and get it while it's hot!

And: if you need help with your identity management and claims-based security scenarios: we are ready for hiring (in 2010...) :)

WCF4 Beta 2 demos from TechEd Europe session

First, thanks to everybody who came to my session. It was Monday. It was 9.00 a.m. - yikes! :)

As promised, here are the samples:
Download WCF B2 samples from TechEd Europe

See you next time.

Helpful for everybody, complex for many - explained comprehensibly: Claims-based security with WIF

thinktecture's security guru Dominick Baier is unbeaten at explaining complex matters in the security world in a simple yet effective way.
So this happend again in a recent Channel9 video recorded by German Microsoft evangelist Dariusz Parys. Dominick presents facts in the realm of claims-based security and how to solve different problems related to authentication, authorization and personalization in practice.
Beyond all the theory and standards, he mentions our very own StarterSTS which was designed and built to lower the entry bar into the sometimes not too trivial battle field of security token services and relying parties. And all this is based on the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) - the prime API for .NET developers to solve the said identity management problems.

Let's go and watch!

Hilfreich für alle, komplex für viele, verständlich erklärt: Claims-basierte Sicherheit mit WIF

thinktecture's Sicherheits-Guru Dominick Baier versteht es immer wieder, komplexe Sachverhalte im Security-Umfeld einfach aber effektiv darzulegen.
So auch wieder geschehen im Channel9-Video, welches Dariusz Parys von Microsoft Deutschland mit ihm gedreht hat. Dominick erklärt die Sachverhalte im Umfeld von Claims-basierter Sicherheit und wie man damit Probleme rund um Authentifizierung, Autorisierung und auch Personalisierung in der Praxis lösen kann.
Neben all der Theorie wird auch unser StarterSTS erwähnt, der den Eintieg in die Claims-Welt erleichtern und den scheinbaren Schrecken vor Identity Providern und Relying Parties nehmen soll. Und alles auf Basis der Windows Identity Foundation (WIF).

Auf zum Video!

MSDN Magazine: Contract-First Web Services - Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation

Buddhike and I wrote a small overview article on why contract-first and especially how contract-first.

For the how we focus on WCF, the built-in support in Visual Studio and the command tools. Then move on to show some basic first steps to do schema-based contract-first with WSCF.blue.
Enjoy.

RELEASE: WSCF.blue v1.0

Get it while it's hot.
In July we announced the Beta 1 and now we can give you the first released version of the number one Web Services Contract-First tool for WCF.

Notable features in WSCF.blue v1.0:

• A WSDL Wizard that allows the developer to step through the creation of a WSDL from one or more XSDs.
• A Data Contract Generator (similar to XSD.exe, XSDObjectGen.exe and SvcUtil.exe) that generates the .NET equivalent classes of the XSD types.
• A Service/Endpoint Stub (support for self-hosted and web-hosted) Generator and
• A Client Proxy Generator.
• A Generate Data Contract Code feature that supports the selection of multiple XSD/WSDL source files.
• A Paste XML as Schema option that generates a schema for a block of XML in the clipboard.
• Support for C# and VB.NET code generation.
• You can choose if operation methods on your service class will throw a NotImplementedException, call an implementation method in a partial class, or will be defined as abstract methods.
• Force the SOAP actions (Action and ReplyAction) applied to each operation contract follow the standard WCF format
• Errors found while processing the WSDL are reported in a WSCF.blue pane in the Visual Studio Output window.

Thanks for all the hard work to the team - especially the new WSCF.blue code master, Alex Meyer-Gleaves!
On to planning v2 now...

Next generation of a success story: WSCF.blue for WCF goes Beta 1

It has been a long time where I originally built the Web Services Contract First tool... I am getting old.
This tool - briefly called WSCF - (available both as a command line utility and a simple Visual Studio add-in) was targeted at the ASMX platform. WSCF evolved until version 0.7 which still works on ASMX and within Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.
... and then there was silence... a long period of silence... a too long period of silence... and I still feel sorry about this. People were longing for schema-based contract first tool support for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - and I couldn't do it due to a lot of work in customer projects.

Fast forward to 2009: I am a happy guy because I found a set of intelligent and super motivated coding heroes who now have now released the Beta 1 version of WSCF.blue: The WSCF tool for WCF.
These heroes are namely:

• Edward Bakker
• Buddhike de Silva (long-time WSCF coding dude)
• Santosh Benjamin
• Alex Meyer-Gleaves

WSCF.blue is hosted over at CodePlex. Please go and grab it, test it and... please provide any feedback you have!
Thanks for being patient. The wait is over now.