Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax)

Geneva framework supports today the two WS-Trust profiles, Active and Passive.

According to the Geneva documentation,

I just got an email from Miguel Angel Saenz confirming the date of the next biggest Microsoft event in Buenos Aires Argentina, "MSDN briefing", which will take place on March 25th.

The other day and friend of mine asked me about portable STS implementations, if I knew about any available solution that he could use on his company. That reminded me of a conversation I had like two years ago with another developer working on custom .NET CLR framework version for portable devices (like smartcards). As part of that project, his team was also working on a TCP/IP communication stack for the device, and a http handler for accepting raw WS-TRUST messages. One goal for that project was to have a P-STS that could be interoperable with WCF. The idea seemed very promising at time.

According to the WS-Trust specification, a service consumer has a way to negotiate or ask for specific claims to the STS. Those claims (or some of them) will be generally used by  the service implementation running on the relying party.

Keith Brown has just released a helper class (Based on an original implementation made by Dominick Baier) with very useful methods for mixing Http and Https in a regular asp.net application. Before jumping in this post, make sure to read his post (And Dominick's) to understand all the problems you may have to deal with when implementing a partial SSL website.

The other day I came across this interesting article written by Subbu Allamaraju, where he discusses some of the aspects that drive the design of a pure and self-describing RESTful interface for a service (Or service contract in other words).

My good friend Pablo Galiano has released a pretty cool plug-in for Visual Studio 2008, Sticky Notes. In a few words, this extension allows you to attach sticky notes to your code, which can be personal notes (Only visible to you) or team notes (visible to the entire team).