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Adding OpenID support to your VB.NET web site couldn’t be easier. Here is the easiest way: Download the DotNetOpenId library. Extract the DotNetOpenId.dll from the bin directory of the .zip…
While this post assumes a C# web site, the steps will work for VB.NET just as well, but the syntax of the glue code will have to be adjusted slightly.…
Lately there has been some blogging activity around C# implementations of OpenID that are "so small you can just host the source code as a single class your web site." …
The open source OpenID C# library DotNetOpenID has been released. This is a really exciting release that adds full support for OpenID 2.0 while preserving full backward compatibility for interoperating…
New since v2.0 beta 1: Providers can send unsolicited assertions Providers can detect and respond to directed identity (identifier_select) requests from relying parties. Completely stateless relying party support (not even…
The OpenId Authentication 2.0 spec’s section on nonces allows for nonces to be made up of any and all ASCII characters in the range of 33-126 inclusive. This includes the…
A maintenance release of DotNetOpenId 1.0 has just been posted to the DotNetOpenId project site. The new version (1.0.1) contains just one fix from the 1.0.0 version that corrects a…
DotNetOpenId 1.0 RTW The culmination of a great deal of work in refactoring, bug fixing and enhancements can be found in the latest .NET implementation of the OpenId library known…
I’ve been contributing heavily to the open source DotNetOpenId project for the past few weeks. It’s been pretty stagnant for the past year or so and people were complaining. I…
Although the author of BlogEngine.NET didn’t accept a patch from me to add OpenID support to his open-source blog engine a few months ago, it’s really easy for you to…