Online Resources

Windows Identity Foundation SDK | Training - Fabrikam Shipping, Identity Developer Training Kit | Blogs And Web Sites | Microsoft Articles and White Papers | Architecture Journal Articles

This appendix contains a variety of resources that are related to claims-based architectures.

Windows Identity Foundation SDK

You can download the Windows Identity Foundation SDK at https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=defd2019-a61f-4327-9332-6a4b6103527a.

Training

Here are two training resources you can use to familiarize yourself with Windows Identity Foundation.

Fabrikam Shipping

Fabrikam Shipping is a semi-realistic sample Web application that demonstrates how to use Windows Identity Foundation for authentication, authorization, and identity-driven customization for a Web front end and a services back end. Its main goal is to show how to implement common tasks and features in Web applications. You can download it at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/FabrikamShipping.

Identity Developer Training Kit

The Identity Developer Training Kit contains a set of hands-on labs, documents, and references that will help you to learn how to take advantage of Microsoft's latest identity and access control developer's products and services. You can download it at https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c3e315fa-94e2-4028-99cb-904369f177c0.

Blogs And Web Sites

Here are some blogs and Web sites that may prove useful:

• Microsoft Forefront:

  https://www.microsoft.com/forefront/en/us/identity-access-management.aspx

• Vibro.NET:
  https://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/

• Eugenio Pace blog:
  https://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop

• Matias Woloski blog:
  http://blogs.southworks.net/mwoloski/

• Donovanf's blog:
  https://blogs.msdn.com/donovanf/default.aspx

• The Id Element:
  https://channel9.msdn.com/identity/

• des on Federated Identity:
  http://identity-des.com/

• Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog:
  http://www.identityblog.com/

• CECI N'EST PAS UN BOB:
  http://notabob.blogspot.com/

• dale olds' virtualsoul:
  http://virtualsoul.org/blog/

• Identity 2.0:
  http://identity20.com/

• Mike Jones: Self-Issued:
  http://self-issued.info/

• Adventures of an Eternal Optimist:
  http://eternallyoptimistic.com/

• Welcome to the Metaverse:
  https://blogs.msdn.com/richardt/

• Authorization Manager Team Blog:
  https://blogs.msdn.com/azman/

Microsoft Articles and White Papers

Here are some white papers and data sheets that may prove useful:

• "Microsoft's Identity and Access Management Platform Whitepapers" on Microsoft.com:
  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3
• "Understanding WS-Policy" on MSDN:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996497.aspx
• "Understanding WS-Federation" on MSDN:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb498017.aspx#wsfedver1_topic1
• "WS-Security AppNotes" on MSDN:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms951253.aspx
• "The Laws of Identity" on MSDN:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996456.aspx
• "Microsoft's Vision for an Identity Metasystem" on MSDN:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996422.aspx

Architecture Journal Articles

Here are some journal articles that may prove useful:

• "A Better Approach for Building Claims-Based WCF Services" in MSDN Magazine:
  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd278426.aspx
• Building a Custom Security Token Service at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.01.genevests.aspx

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