November 2008 - Posts

How to decrypt a GenericXmlSecurityToken using Geneva Framework by Matias Woloski's Blog

  This took some time and you are lucky if you hit this after a search. This extension method allows you to decrypt a SAML 1.1 security token using Geneva Framework. public static ClaimsIdentityCollection ToClaimsIdentityCollection(this GenericXmlSecurityToken...

Windows Azure @ PDC Buenos Aires by Matias Woloski's Blog

It’s been two weeks already that we’ve got back from LA after attending PDC. Lots of things announced there. Microsoft Argentina organized the local-mini version of PDC. I will be there showing Windows Azure with Edgardo. The talk will be...

Fixing the SDS HOL from Azure Training Kit by Extemporaneous Mumblings

If you downloaded the Azure Services Training Kit (which you should), you would find a compilation error on some of the SQL Data Services HOLs. The error is somewhat self-explanatory:  the solution is missing the AjaxControlToolkit.  The reason...

Live Framework: New Team Blog, Downloads by Live Services

There has been a lot of excitement and questions about the Live Framework since it was announced at the Professional Developers Conference. To help understand it and share tips, knowledge and code, the Live Framework team has started a new team blog....

Azure Services Training Kit – PDC Preview by Extemporaneous Mumblings

The Azure Services Training kit contains the hands on labs used at PDC along with presentations and demos.  We will continue to update this training kit with more demos, samples, and labs as they are built out.  This kit is a great way to try...

Live Search API v2.0 Beta Released by Live Services

We are pleased to announce that the Live Search team just released the version 2.0 beta of the Live Search API with several new features. According to this Live Search blog post : We now offer access through new interfaces: JSON, and XML over HTTP. Of...

Created a Windows Azure Links page... by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Gus has decided to create a single Windows Azure Links page instead of just doing individual posts with new links and having them all scattered across entries. Hopefully this will make it easier for folks to find more places to get information on Windows...

Getting Log Files from Windows Azure by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Jim posted a walkthrough on how to get the log files for your Cloud Service when it's running on Windows Azure , you can piece together the info from the SDK docs and looking at the portal, but this walkthrough will streamline the experience for you...

Windows Azure Integration with Windows Live ID, Active Directory and OpenID by Live Services

Hi everyone, George Moore and Neelamadhaba Mahaptro here from the Live Services team. For the past several months the Live Framework and Windows Live ID teams have been working together to enable turnkey integration of Windows Azure with Windows Live...

Azure community links... by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Gus has just posted a few links to sites working to share some Windows Azure content with other developers out there. Check it out here . Read More...

Refreshed REST library for SQL Data Services by Extemporaneous Mumblings

I finally got around to doing a quick refresh on the SSDS REST Library .  It should now be called SDS REST library of course, but I doubt I will change the name as that would break the URL in Code Gallery. I am calling this one a 'Refresh'...

Retiring labs.biztalk.net by .Net Services Team Blog

Back when what is now known as the .NET Services Team was first getting started, the team made available very early access to their work through the labs.biztalk.net web site and supporting endpoints.  This gave the team an opportunity early on to...

ASP.Net MVC Sample on Windows Azure with Providers by Cloud Computing Tools Team

Jim just posted an update to his ASP.Net MVC on Windows Azure sample -- which includes plugging in the sample ASP.Net Providers that run against the Windows Azure storage services. Note the workaround to an issue when running the sample hosted on Windows...

Azure Services Platform - Passive Federation & Access Control #2 by Matias Woloski's Blog

In the previous post I introduced a scenario where you can use .NET Services Access Control and Windows LiveID to delegate authentication and authorization. In this post we will go through the different pieces needed in the application to perform authorization...

Azure Services Platform - Passive Federation & Access Control #1 by Matias Woloski's Blog

The last couple of months together with other people at Southworks we’ve been working with the DPE team on samples, demos, hands on labs for PDC all related to the cloud computing services Microsoft announced at PDC, the Azure Services Platform...
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