Add OpenID login support to your ASP.NET MVC site
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.…
An argument for the extra dependency of a library
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." …
C# OpenID library DotNetOpenID 2.0 released
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…
DotNetOpenId 2.0 Beta 2 has been released
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…
OpenID 2.0 nonces and ASP.NET HttpRequestValidationException
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…
DotNetOpenId 1.0 released today, 2.0 beta also released
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…
DotNetOpenId: What’s coming
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…
How to add OpenID support to BlogEngine.NET
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…
Silverlight Slideshow control
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…
A new .NET OpenID implementation written in C#
Quite a bit of stir has been raised about Janrain’s popular .NET implementation of OpenID being written in Boo rather than C#. Personally, I take my hat off to the…