Uri.AbsoluteUri and Uri.ToString() are NOT the same
If you’re familiar with the System.Uri class you know that it has a couple of ways of becoming a string for purposes of communication: its AbsoluteUri property and its ToString()…
DotNetOpenId 2.1.0 released, adds Attribute Exchange support
DotNetOpenId had a double release tonight. Version 2.0.1 is a maintenance release with a few minor bug fixes. Version 2.1 adds built-in support for the Attribute Exchange extension, but introduces…
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…