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Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook

By : Sandeep Chanda
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Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook

By: Sandeep Chanda

Overview of this book

<p>Implementing security as a cross-cutting concern has several challenges. Consequently, modern software development practices and Service Oriented Architectures are alluding to the idea of claims-based Identity for access control. Microsoft&rsquo;s Identity and Access Control paradigm leverages industry standard open specifications and provides tools, runtime and platform support for facilitating the development of claims-enabled applications. <br /><br />Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook explores real world scenarios on building claims-enabled .NET applications using Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation (WIF), Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS 2.0) and Windows Azure Access Control Services (ACS).<br /><br />This book covers all aspects of several real world challenges that professional developers face while enabling support for claims-based identity across interoperable platforms and building claims-enabled applications. The book then goes on to explore AD FS 2.0 and provides step-by-step details on how claims support is enabled in Microsoft&rsquo;s server technologies.<br /><br />The book starts by introducing you to the world of claims-based identity in .NET Framework 4.0. It then moves on to showcase the capabilities of the runtime and the associated SDK including the steps to perform identity delegation in ASP.NET MVC 3 applications, create WCF security token services, extend the runtime to provide support for SAML 2.0 specifications and use AppFabric as a trusted source for implementing access control. Further, the book explores AD FS 2.0 and features recipes showcasing steps to configure claims in Microsoft&rsquo;s server technologies. It also features a chapter on some of the newer capabilities of the runtime including providing support for claims in Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows 8 Metro applications.<br /><br />Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook provides a mix of recipes from basic to advanced to enable professional developers to implement claims-based identity in enterprise-wide scalable and interoperable applications.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Author

Sandeep Chanda is a Director of Solutions at Neudesic, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner. He has been working on several Microsoft Technologies (including but not limited to .NET, BizTalk, SharePoint, and Dynamics CRM) for the past seven years, of which the last couple of years were spent on building claims-aware applications for leading companies in the Manufacturing and Hospitality domains. He is a technology enthusiast and a speaker at various corporate events and public webinars. He has authored several articles on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 in a popular online developer magazine. Most recently, he has been involved in evangelizing the aspects of Application Lifecycle Management and developer collaboration, using Team Foundation Server 11 Beta. He also spends quite a bit of time travelling and training the different teams on the new features of .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows 8 Metro application development. Sandeep holds an MS degree in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, and his areas of interest include Service-oriented Computing, Pervasive Computing, and Haptic Devices. He occasionally blogs at http://vstslive.wordpress.com and can be reached over email at .

Currently celebrating a decade of technological innovation, Neudesic was founded in 2002 by forward-thinking industry veterans Parsa Rohani, Tim Marshall, and Anthony Ferry, who saw opportunity in the development of Microsoft's .NET platform. Neudesic has since acquired a deep understanding of Microsoft's entire technology stack. The Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold ISV Partner has leveraged its expertise in Microsoft's various platforms to become a leading provider of SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Azure, and mobile solutions.

Through the years, various industry and business publications have recognized Neudesic's meteoric rise from a small startup with a vision to an established force on a mission. For the fifth straight year in 2011, Inc. Magazine named Neudesic to its list of America's fastest growing private companies.

Sandeep is associated with Neudesic India, the company's international presence in India headed by Ashish Agarwal. Ashish is an alumnus of University of South California, and joined Neudesic in the early days of its inception and has since led the India team to over 100 successful engagements associating with more than 30 clients.