Enhancing the ASP.NET MVC OpenID login experience
In a previous post, I present an example of how to accept OpenIDs for logins on your ASP.NET MVC site. To keep the sample simple, I left out a feature…
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 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…
Visual Studio 2008 RTM today
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.
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to ship this month
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…
WPF Gmail clone: end of the road
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…
An update on the cloned Gmail interface using WPF
I’ve spent a couple dozen hours now working into the details of the Gmail clone I began about a month ago. I’ve been learning more of the ins-and-outs of WPF’s…