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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…
I’ve been looking to change out my Flash-based slide shows that appear on my personal blog with a Silverlight-based slide show control. A quick Internet search revealed First Floor’s Silverlight…
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is done, and can be downloaded today to MSDN Professional subscribers. See a previous post for some of the most exciting features of this new release.
In a press release today, Microsoft announced it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 this month. This is a truly remarkable landmark release. My favorite new features…
Due to patent and copyright concerns and trying to avoid any trouble from Google, I cannot release the source code to the WPF Gmail clone sample. I have decided instead…