Archives
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Federated Security with Windows Live ID (PT/EN)
Being Windows Live ID one of the existing authentication modes and that has as big advantage the already existing infrastructure provided by Microsoft and with no cost associates, and also making the Single-Sign-On for several solutions that use Windows Live ID as the authentication mechanism, and if we add the fact that there are mode then 420 millions of registered users of Windows Live ID and more then 1 billion of authentications by day we see that this is a well known and with high used form of authentication. Of course we know that this values have to do with the usage of MSN Messenger, but we can capitalize the knowledge and trust from the users in our solutions. But when we look to enterprise solutions there can be situations that need to share authentication to our solutions between Windows Live ID and at the same time the users that exist on our enterprise and that are managed by Active Directory, LDAP or any other (Ex. An Online Store that we want to give customers the possibility of authenticating using Windows Live ID, and the Administrator Users are solutions from our Company, XPTO, that has their users registered on Active Directory.). In this cases what can we do?
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Silverlight Application Size Optimization
Some much as been said about Silverlight and it's really good but sometimes we tend to forget an important issue like Performance, and being Silverlight a very interesting technology is very important not to forget any of this kinds of issues because when technologies are nice, and have great UX more hobbyists appear and more Best Practices are needed in order to maintain the level of success of the solutions developed.
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Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Released
As I said some while ago, there are several projects running related with Virtual Earth and one of them is the generation of a Server Control for ASP.NET that will allow us to develop solution and at the same time take some of the complexity of using Virtual Earth, and so here's the announcement that this control is made available as part of the Windows Live Tools July Refresh and you can even watch a video related to this subject on Channel 9 with Mark Brown that is a member of the Virtual Earth Team, where he talks about all the elements that were made available with this control.
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Federated Security Framework
One of the great issues that exist when developing solutions is the Security, and when we talk about SaaS or S+S the issue becomes a lot more complicated and so we have to use Federated Identity, and there are several ways to do this and as Frederik Chong from Microsoft and Dwayne Taylor from RDA wrote on their article Federated Identity: Scenarios, Architecture and Implementation this is not a easy issue to solve and so they show some ways that can be used, and although this is a 2006 article, it's still very interesting to read about the issues, but now the Federated Security Team is developing a framework for Federated Identity with the codename "Zermatt" that's present on the Microsoft Connect Services site, and this already have a public beta that can be downloaded and used.
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ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap
Being ASP.NET AJAX a very important part of ASP.NET one thing that would help is knowing what and when will be delivered and so a Roadmap is a must-have, and Microsoft delivered precisely that in order for us to get to know what's being done and have some notion about when it will be delivered, and I think there's some great stuff there like AJAX in ASP.NET MVC, Interoperability, Accessibility and even support for OpenAJAX-compliant XML metafiles, never forgetting that the Javascript support in Visual Studio must evolve also. So if you want to have detailed information about this subject check here for the complete document with all the explanation regarding this Roadmap.
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Composite Application Guidance for WPF
WPF is a very interesting technology since it provides the possibility to have a better User Experience on our Windows Applications, and by doing so it attracted many designers, enthusiasts as well as Developers, Architects and IT Managers, but what happens with new technologies is that sometimes they are misused by developers and became a problem. And so in order to help developers and architects attend to this type of problems the Patterns and Practices Team has been working on a project named "Composite Application Guidance for WPF", that will make the necessary "mind" adjustments and bring flexibility to the development of new applications in WPF.