Justin Smith's Blog
Major update to ACS now available
Today I’m excited to announce a major update to ACS. It’s available in our labs environment:...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 08/04/2010
Mgmt Config sample for WLID / Facebook Connect sample
Now that we have a mgmt tool, I can provide you with a template so you can setup the ACS part of the...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/15/2009
ACS integration with Windows Live ID & Facebook Connect
I’ve received several requests regarding ACS and Windows Live ID integration for websites. This post...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/15/2009
ACS SAML / ADFS v2 Sample
The November 2009 CTP of ACS integrates with Active Directory Federation Server v2. ACS can act as a...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/14/2009
Management Browser uploaded
Since releasing the new version of ACS on Nov 5, we’ve received quite a bit of feedback that we...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/14/2009
Web Resource Authorization Protocol (WRAP) and Simple Web Token (SWT) on google groups
The Access Control Service uses a new community protocol and format that are now posted on google...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/05/2009
Access Control Service and ADFS v2 demo
In my last post I outlined the changes that were coming in the Access Control Service. Since that...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 10/07/2009
Access Control Service – Roadmap for PDC and Beyond
We are in the process of making some key design changes to the Access Control Service (ACS) for our...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 09/28/2009
Client Certificate Credential Verification
Over the past few months, several people have asked me how to accept client certificates on a...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/31/2009
Mix 09 Deck
For some reason the slide deck I presented at Mix didn’t show up on the Mix 09 website. If you are...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 04/28/2009
Interesting article on Azure Services
Today I caught up on some press material on Azure Services. For those that haven’t seen it, the...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 03/26/2009
TokenClient (Mix) introduction
This week at Mix I demonstrated a new experimental client API (TokenClient) for interacting with the...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 03/25/2009
Federated website sample
The Geneva Framework FAM is the simplest way to experience ACS and ASP.NET. My friends in platform...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 02/12/2009
Setting up a solution in .NET Services
My co-worker Jenny Lo wrote a good post on how to get started with .NET Services. If you are...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/16/2009
Access Control Service - Common Interaction Model
In my previous post I described at a high level a simple scenario that leverages the Access Control...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/16/2009
Access Control Service - A Simple Scenario
To the already initiated claims disciples, the Access Control Service is a multi-tenant Resource...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/07/2008
.NET Services - Launch at PDC 08
Today we announced the CTP release of .NET Services! For quite a while now, I have been working on...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 10/27/2008
Access Control rule changes in BizTalk Services R12
Yesterday we released a new version of BizTalk Services (R12). Over the next few weeks I'll be...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/16/2008
BizTalk Services and "Add Service Reference"
One of the little known features of BizTalk Services is it's support for metadata. There's a sample...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 04/08/2008
First week at the new job
This week I started a new job at Microsoft - I've moved from Developer and Platform Evangelism to...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 03/22/2008
Robots and BizTalk Services
I just posted a new screencast on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=386824....
Author: justinjsmith Date: 02/28/2008
Claims and the Calculator sample in the BizTalk Services SDK
The identity provider in BizTalk Services is a way for applications to delegate identity and access...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 02/27/2008
enableWebScript, UriTemplate, and HTTP methods
A little while ago I ran into an interesting set of errors that may be of interest to you. Consider...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 02/15/2008
Life at Microsoft
I'm not prone to publish non-techie topics on this blog, but I can't help this one :). I'm often...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 02/13/2008
MySpace does WCF
My friend Vittorio has posted that MySpace will be talking about WCF at Mix 2008 (see it here). This...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/31/2008
Life of a WCF Demo, Part 1
I thought it might be mildly interesting to document the lifecycle of a demo. Over the next week or...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/22/2008
PictureServices and BizTalk Services
Previous posts have talked a bit about PictureServices. Now I'd like to run through what it took to...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/18/2008
XML namespace declarations in SyndicationFeed objects
Following on the heels of Steve Maine's post about namespaces in Syndication objects (Feeds, items,...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/16/2008
PictureServices updated to VS 2008 RTM
Today I updated PictureServices to work with the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/14/2008
PictureServices status update
I've received several mails about PictureServices and RTM. As some of you know, the Syndication API...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/14/2008
Random Post: Search Server Express
This isn't my normal area of interest, but I found this page on microsoft.com fairly interesting....
Author: justinjsmith Date: 01/08/2008
WCF Syndication article in MSDN Magazine...
It seems that the RSS/Atom article I wrote for MSDN magazine was just published:...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 12/23/2007
Hamsters, Robots, and Services
This is one of the more interesting videos I've seen in a while:...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 12/14/2007
TechEd 2007 Barcelona Content
I just got back from TechEd Barcelona. It was my first time visiting Barcelona. I gave several...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 11/14/2007
It's a bird. No, it's a plane. No, what the heck is it?
I'm not sure if my grammar for the title of this post is correct. I offer my apology to those that...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 09/07/2007
What's a Cybertopian?
If you do a web search on the term, you may find definitions that are less than flattering. That was...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 08/30/2007
Setting HTTP Headers in WCF (.NET 3.5)
One of the cool parts of WCF in the .NET 3.5 is the simplified support of the REST architectural...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 08/22/2007
Check out Picture Services
A few days ago we released a new sample called Picture Services. As the name implies, this sample...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 08/20/2007
On a personal note
I'm not one to make this blog a place for personal posts, but I have to make an exception today....
Author: justinjsmith Date: 08/17/2007
ASP.NET, WCF, and Asynchronous Programming
Jeffrey Richter told me once that a CPU was a terrible thing to waste. I don't know if he was the...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 08/01/2007
What is the Web 2.0?
I often ask this question to people, and I've come to expect a wide array of answers. Last week I...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/30/2007
WCF, ASP.NET AJAX, and JavaScript Proxies
I spent this weekend tinkering around with the JSON messaging capabilities of WCF new in the .NET...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/24/2007
Syndication formats, endpoints and config files
I got a question via email today that forced me to look back through some older emails for the...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/18/2007
IBM MQ Custom Channel
I just saw a mail introducing an alpha release from IBM - an MQ series custom channel. It appears to...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/16/2007
New WCF Security Examples
A little while ago, HongMei Ge sent me around a dozen new security samples. After reviewing them,...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/10/2007
WebServiceHost vs ServiceHost
WCF in .NET Fx 3.5 introduces several types that simplify the creation of services that use the...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 07/02/2007
InfoQ Garbage Collector Presentation - Live
Last year I presented at a conference in Tennessee. It's hard for me to remember the topics I talked...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 06/27/2007
Introducing The EndPoint (Channel9 Show)
Channel9 has attained tremendous momentum over the past few years. In my view, Channel9 is a great...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 06/19/2007
Inside Windows Communication Foundation Table of Contents
A recent commenter on this blog indicated that the TOC of Inside Windows Communication Foundation...
Author: justinjsmith Date: 06/18/2007