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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 ...

One criticism I have heard placed at the door of ADO.NET Data Services is that it does not provide control over the syntax and design of the URI addresses that represent the resources you are surfacing through a data service. While it is true that there are limits to the control developers have over the formatting of URIs, most of these ...

This is a blog I've been meaning to write for over a year now, but have just not had the time. Its as much a ''note to self'' as a blog for external consumption. WCF provides the ability to generate a client proxy that communicates with a service, such as a SOAP service conforming to basic profile. Generating a proxy can be done by either using ...

PDC went by in a flash. Of all the conferences I've ever had the privilege to attend, it was by far the most intense, in terms of hours, subject matter and variety of new software to consider. For all of these reasons, I chose not to blog whilst I was there. I wanted to chew on what I had seen before blogging about any of the technologies ...

It's been a long time since I last wrote a blog post; around six months to be exact. It's not that I have not been busy writing though. In April I began embarking on one of the hardest things I've ever done; writing a book with my co-author John Shaw. And now for a brief advertisement; the book is called ''Pro ADO.NET Data Services : Working ...

There are several blog posts out there that cover the subject of how to consume JSON enabled services from Javascript using ASP.net AJAX. Having scouted around the usual suspects, I think the best article is by Fritz Onion here: http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/archive/2008/01/31/50121.aspx That said, I haven't found it all plain ...