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I have been speaking with the guys on the AJAX Control Toolkit and they have requested that I get the control onto CodePlex.

So, here it is: http://www.codeplex.com/CardSpaceAjax

I've created a control based on the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit that gives a web site the ability to easily add cross browser support for CardSpace and othe Identity Selectors.

The concept comes is loosely based on dominick baier's CardSpace Control for ASP.NET, however I think that you'll find that it should be more flexible in regards to the UI abilities.

I have offered the control to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit team and they are considering its inclusion in the project.

This prototype code is attached to this blog entry.

CsAjax.zip

DotNetNuke is having its first ever conference - DotNetNuke OpenForce '07 - and I'll be there!

I'm really looking forward to all the things on the DotNetNuke schedule, and because the event is coupled with the DevConnections event, I may even pop in there to see what's going on.

DotNetNuke Core Team members and Super-Duo Philip Beadle and Lorraine Young will be there leading the Australian contingent.

I just booked my conference ticket and hotel room. It'll be my first trip to the United States and I'm looking forward to it very much. It's a shame that I'll only be there for the conference and then I'll be coming straight back - but it will be worth it nonetheless.

Also I'd ...

To all those that have asked me for an advance copy of the CardSpace Authentication Provider for DotNetNuke I thank you for your patience.

The provider is now a part of the standard DotNetNuke installation in DNN 4.6. Right now you'll need to sign up to the DotNetNuke Beta testing progam here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=1123&tabid=510&mid=2027

Please send any feedback to me. The installation instructions haven't been published yet so unless you've got some CardSpace deployment experience you'll probably have an issue or two. Firstly, remember that you'll need SSL on your web site (shared SSL will be enough) before you can even contemplate using CardSpace on your site.

This is gold: http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2007/08/09/9571.aspx

I love how he uses the Silverlight 1.1 scripting bridge to overcome Silverlight's existing limitations.

As LiveId now supports information cards for authentication it seems that Microsoft are getting the whole machine behind the technology publicly.

You can now sign into Hotmail and various other sites using a self-issued card.

But the process seems kind of funny to me: the identity metasystem was designed for Identity Providers to run their own STS - and for site providers to act as relying parties.

However the current model for LiveId is topsy-turvy. LiveId acts as a RP and your computer acts as the STS.

This means that web sites that want to use CardSpace for authenticating LiveId based users need to have a system of HTTP redirects in place - this messes with the security of the identity metasystem and gives the user an inconsistent experience.

I hope that Microsoft soon expose a LiveId STS and then issue managed Information Cards to LiveId users. Then web sites will be able to act as Relying ...

I broke it a few days ago while preparing for the upcoming release of DotNetNuke 4.6.

I have written the DotNetNuke CardSpace Authentication Provider - which will be release to benefactors quite soon - and then to the wider public.

Until this release is complete I won't have the time to get the CardSpace module on this site running properly.

This will be my first official release of any open source software - so wish me luck! All feeback welcome...

With the recent new functionality in Microsoft's LiveId / CardSpace integration I thought it would be useful to give Microsoft some feedback about the CardSpace user experience when signing into LiveId services.

I opened up Camtasia and recorded a session associating an Information Card with my LiveId, and then signing into Hotmail.

Unfortuately it didn't work - CardSpace runs in a separate desktop - and Camtasia didn't capture the window.

I asked my mate at MS, Steven Woodward, what I should do - he gave me the easy (and obvious answer) - run the CardSpace demo in a VPC, and then use Camtasia to capture the whole session.

I hope someone finds this useful.

I recently installed Blend 2 August Preview in order to cut some Silverlight 1.1 CardSpace examples.

I started by using the W2K3 VS2008 Beta 2 TFS VPC image, then installed Blend2, the VS2008 Silverlight Alpha Tools.

Unfortunately the "Open in Expression Blend" context menu option in VS2008 failed, when Blend2 came up and said "The name Canvas does not exist in the namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation".

There was also another symptom: When you open the "New Project" dialog in Blend2 the Silverlight (.Net) and Silverlight (.Net "Orcas") options were missing.

After a few hours thinking that I had the installation order incorrect, and talking to fellow Readifarian Damian Edwards, I found that there are two builds of the Blend 2 August Preview: 2.0.1075 and 2.0.1077. Damian is running the older one on Vista without problems. ...