Steps to install Windows Identity Foundation and Basic installers for the windows identity foundation

Eugenio announced yesterday the kickoff of a new guide from patterns & practices in which I’m collaborating: Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide. This is not a new topic as Eugenio suggests in his blog, but it’s getting more and more attention because: •Technology is more...

Another identity development widget brought to you by Vittorio’s team. This time it’s a very tiny control called SecurityTokenVisualizer that helps debugging claims-aware web applications. But the thing I like of this control is that it can also be used as a teaching tool, very useful for demos by t...

Vittorio just announced it in his blog… we helped writing an experiment of raising the level of abstraction to work against claims. We created a server control that allows you to work with claims. There are three types of expression: Claim Value: set the value of a property with the value of a spec...

Considering transactional replication in SQL Server? Need to find all tables in your database that use Identity columns? This blog offers a T-SQL query that'll do just that.

I wanted to use GUIDs for a specific table's primary key, but I had no intention of running two queries just so I could get the newly created row's GUID. Here's a great way to get data created within a stored procedure back to the code that called it.