.NET

WCF Claims, STS and Federation – Layman’s View

Configuring your Federation I’m here to explain WCF claims in federated services using STS (security token service) from a layman’s perspective.  I’ve started with the set of configuration you have to put in place on web.config under system.serviceModel to make your service in federated way.  Instead of very boring textual explanation, I’m explaining in comic way.  [...]

Cumbersomeness Web.Config

People who are in .NET arena might encounter the plethora of xxx.config files especially web.config.  It is a required devil for placing any configuration settings for your applications.  We should appreciate the effort taken by the engineers at Microsoft for introducing (at that time, Java’s configuration approach is very immature) and providing a declarative approach, centralized and optimistic way [...]

.NET DLR: Will die?

Though my main stream is on C#, I personally like Ruby.  I was quite surprised that Microsoft started focusing on non-C family languages, those are actually coming from *nix world.  Couple of years back when Microsoft released the notes about Dynamic Language Runtime which is something like Java implementation languages like JRuby, Scala.  DLR has been scoped to [...]

Beware of SCA if you are in WCF

Today, a technology newsletter carried with an article about SCA (Service Component Architecture) which is outshone at IBM campus along with BEA.  Is it a another SOA specification?  Is it a SOA framework? or, alternate to SOA?  Michael Rowley who is the author/architect/inventor of this said that it depends.  Confused.  Yes, it has been mentioned that SOA [...]