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Last night I presented to the London Connected Systems User Group on the subject of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The LCSUG community is focussed around building and integrating services. One architectural concern that has been widely ignored in service oriented architecture is identity and access control. Web based identity protocols such ...

If you’ve been following this blog, or those of my colleagues Howard and Jon, it’s probably been obvious that we love the Spark view engine. We’ve been using it in anger for the last 6 months or so on our latest Asp.Net MVC project and between us we have nothing but praise for it. I’ve talked before about how the use of Spark really helped us to ...

This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

My colleague Jon George has recently been posting about his experiences of performance tuning our latest web application, built on Asp.Net MVC. His introductory post talks briefly about how we spent a large effort in laying the correct foundations for the project, which have ultimately led to its success. Being the “technical lead who had ...

This is part 2 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

This is part 1 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

  One of the clear advantages of using the MVC pattern is that it encourages separation of concerns – it doesn’t enforce it by any means, but following the pattern results in a nice clean, maintainable, flexible solution. The architectural advantages of this are documented everywhere, but I also believe that it aids separation of concerns in ...

(Part 1 is here) The main part of the Openid support is in the controllers and in the view. Fortunately the heavy lifting has been done already, with a library called DotNetOpenId and sample code that started life in Rob Connery's storefront sample, and was worked on by my colleagues Howard Van Rooijen and Pete Worthington before I got ...

I am following up on my last post on Oxite by showing how to add OpenId login support to it. I won't finish this today. This first one will cover the repository changes needed. First, download the Oxite source and set up the database. From a database perspective, the table where user logins are stored is called oxite_user. In code this is ...