Docker is the latest technology to hit the I.T. industry but what is it? Before the realization of the cloud every software company had to develop their own method to deploy their software. This was costly to do and took up many resources and time. Docker is a standardized method to deploy software using containers.… Read More »
WS-Federation Single Logout (SLO) is not supported by the Microsoft WIF libraries. This is mentioned in the Programming Windows Identity Foundation book of Vitorrio Bertocci on page 121. This should however only affect you if you have written your own IDP / IP-STS. As a result one can only sign-out from a single site at… Read More »
To Integrate Ws-Federation into .Net Core is straight forward although the documentation of this topic is really lacking. In the article below I have some code snippets showing how to do the integration.
To generate ws-federation metadata for your own STS use the following tool. Federation metadata generation tool on GitHub or you just download a copy of the source here from my site. The tool will not create a federation metdata file for a relying party (RP). To create a federation metadata file for a RP use the XML… Read More »
Recently I had to investigate for a situation where a user would sign into a Google chrome account and a desktop application on the same machine had to somehow pick up the cookie and use it to communicate to web services, very similar to Cross browser \ application SSO.
I am sure many companies are slowly doing the migration from web forms in asp.net to MVC with asp.net core and with that migration comes the need for diagnostics or exception logger. In this article is a very simple example for exception logging.
The hidden monolith I decided to start an article based on the “Hidden monolith”. Micro-services are the latest architecture style that everyone is employing. Often companies hear the new buzz word “Micro services” and say – “We must do that” … and when you start to analyze their system you realize… they got it a… Read More »
Memory leak within WCF? So yesterday my team had to trace a possible memory issue within our application. We used the built in memory tools within Visual Studio and identified that the ‘leak’ was within our WCF infrastructure. What was strange was that the problem came from the System.ServiceModel.Channels.BufferManager which is native .net code… So how… Read More »
What is this buzz word, Agile? When we think agile we think of software processes and being able to change the direction of R & D or a project at a rapid pace to allow for the customization of software or the development cycle to provide rapid software features to a client through the act of… Read More »
In the following post I will show why you need a dedicated software architect by drawing some parallels to actual architects from the building industry to show why you need a software architect.