DotNetOpenAuth v3.2 is done
DotNetOpenAuth v3.2 just came off the presses. Lots of feature work and a few interop fixes in this release. The biggest highlights being: Very simple story for both RPs and…
How to get ILMerge to work with .PFX files
ILMerge is an excellent tool for “linking” multiple assemblies into one. But one of its switches, /keyfile:, which allows it to sign the resulting merged assembly, only accepts .snk files. …
Caching results of .NET IEnumerable generator methods
If you’re already familiar with generator methods and want to jump to intelligent caching of their results, skip further down in this blog post. In C#, generator methods are methods…
Uri.EscapeDataPath and HttpUtility.UrlEncode are NOT the same
For some reason Microsoft defined URI escaping twice: Uri.EscapeDataString and HttpUtility.UrlEncode seem to cover the same need. There’s another pair: Uri.EscapeUriString and HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode which again seem to be redundant with…
DotNetOpenAuth 3.0 released
Download it now. Previously named DotNetOpenId in its v1.x and 2.x releases, the v3.0 release is rechristened DotNetOpenAuth to reflect its support for multiple authentication and authorization protocols. Sporting OpenID,…
Need access to that internal? Don’t touch that dial!
The blessing and curse of open source is that the source can be easily changed. Internal types and members don’t need to be backward compatible with previous versions. This makes…
DotNetOpenAuth 3.0 Beta 2 released
DotNetOpenAuth, previously named DotNetOpenId, is getting nearer to its major 3.0 release. With beta 2, we have a security reviewed, feature complete library for .NET use of the OAuth and…
DotNetOpenId v3.0 Beta 1 released
Tonight DotNetOpenId, soon to be renamed DotNetOpenAuth, released beta 1 of the major v3.0 release. You can download the bits from Ohloh. Although downloads should remember that as a beta…
DotNetOpenId is looking for a new home
DotNetOpenId started on Google Code. But we’re outgrowing it. We’d like to move to a shared hosting server where we can have automated tests, nightly builds, and a better web…
DotNetOpenId v3.0 to feature built-in OAuth support
The next major release of DotNetOpenId, slated for a release in or around March 2009, will add OAuth support to the mix. If you don’t know what OAuth is, it…