Eugenio Pace
Preparing to be wrong
Have you used our Claims Identity Guide?
We want to know about your success! Share your story with us and get a signed book and a few little...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/05/2010
WIF and MVC – How it works
I got a few questions from people on how the “Federation with Multiple Partners” sample of the guide...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/03/2010
Federated Identity interoperability samples
Customers frequently ask me about interoperability with their non-Microsoft products, and identity...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/01/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Development Process
One frequent question we get is around “process guidance”. Also known by the more modern and fancy...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/01/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Replacing the data tier with Azure Table Storage
This new release focuses primarily on replacing the data tier with Azure Table Storage. To make...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/31/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – First version of a-Expense in the cloud
Available for download here, you’ll find the first step in taking a-Expense to Windows Azure....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/23/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – A (simplistic) economic analysis of a-Expense migration
A big motivation for considering hosting on Windows Azure is cost. Each month, Microsoft will send...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/19/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – a-Expense “before” on CodePlex
First build of our samples is now available on CodePlex. This initial version is the “before the...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/15/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Scenario – Part II
In this post, we’ll examine the application Adatum is considering migrating to the cloud as a proof...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/11/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Scenario background – Part I
Here’s the “fiction non-fiction” (I love that term :-)) that will become the backdrop for our...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/10/2010
SLA quiz
A few days ago I met with Steve Marx, of Azure fame, and he mentioned how people often misunderstand...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/01/2010
Just Released – Claims-Identity Guide online
The entire book is now available for browsing online on MSDN here:...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/29/2010
ADFS / WIF on Amazon EC2
Steve Riley’s post on growing interest from Amazon customers on identity federation is consistent...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 01/12/2010
Updated code samples & chapters for Claims Identity Guide – Release Candidate
In synch with the availability of ADFS V2.0 Release Candidate, I’m very happy to announce that we...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/21/2009
RIA Services and WIF – Part II
As promised in my previous post, here’s the second part of my findings playing with WIF and RIA...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/25/2009
Updated RIA and WIF samples – Part I
Some time ago, I put together a simple demo integrating WIF in RIA Services. Now RIA is a Beta and...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/22/2009
WIF is RTM
Windows Identity Foundation is here! Congrats to my colleagues shipping great Framework....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/17/2009
Claims based Identity Guide – New release and PDC goodness
New updated chapters & samples are posted on CodePlex. The samples are all updated for WIF RC...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 11/14/2009
Claims based Identity & Access Control Guide – Updated drafts & samples available
Yesterday, we uploaded a new release of the Guide and the samples. You can download the content from...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/20/2009
RIA Services and Windows Identity Foundation – Claims enabling a RIA application
Recently a Customer asked me if an application using RIA Services could use WIF. I’m fairly new to...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/09/2009
Claims based Identity & Access Control Guide – Early drafts available
We finally have a CodePlex site for sharing early content with you all. Check the downloads section...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/02/2009
Exploring the Service Provider track – Fabrikam Shipping Part II (Solution)
Now that we presented the scenario & the requirements, let’s take a look at the solution. What...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/04/2009
Exploring the Service Provider track – First station: Fabrikam Shipping – Part I (the scenario & challenges)
Once again, thanks everybody that wrote us with reviews, feedback and suggestions! Please keep it...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/01/2009
Next station: Federation between Adatum & its Customers.
First things first: thanks everybody who wrote me about the first scenario article. I got quite some...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/24/2009
Welcome to the Enterprise Line, our next stop will be Station #1: “SSO”. Mind the gap.
Disclaimer: this post and the next ones are early drafts to share with you the direction we are...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/19/2009
Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide – The design of the book
As I mentioned in my previous post, we are going to use a “case study” approach in this book in...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/12/2009
Announcing new project – patterns & practices - Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide
For the next couple of months I’ll be working on a new project here at patterns & practices,...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/11/2009
First experiments with (new) SQL Data Services
Last week I got my new login to the new SQL Data Services. As a reminder for all readers: SDS...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/12/2009
Windows Azure 101 – Primitives and Application Patterns – Playing Mendeleyev
Windows Azure’s primitives are very simple, but as in many other things, the power comes from the...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/18/2009
Azure IssueTracker Enterprise - Simple Demos
Provisioning IssueTracker Enterprise: Highlights: There’s no direct interaction with Access Control...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/16/2009
Architecting Cloud Application for the Enterprise – Part V – Management
Having solved the identity issue, the SuperCloudySoftware team focuses then on the management...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/12/2009
Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise – Part IV - SuperCloudySoftware sketches IssueTracker Enterprise Edition
In the previous article, we explored the challenges of building services for an enterprise,...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 03/09/2009
The need for “standards for application logic” in PaaS. Really?
In his latest post on Coghead’s demise, Phil argues that: “What this highlights is the lack of any...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 02/24/2009
Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part III - SuperCloudySoftware meets VeryBigCorp CIO
Actors: the CIO at VeryBigCorp, John (SuperCloudySoftware's CEO) and a bunch of senior developers...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/10/2008
Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part II - VeryBigCorp buys IssueTracker
Now that we have introduced our characters, we will start this story describing the acquisition...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/08/2008
Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part I - Introducing the Actors
I will start this series by introducing the main characters of our scenario. First, we have...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
Architecting Cloud Services for the Big Enterprise
For the last couple of months, we’ve been working on scenarios that involve consuming cloud services...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 12/04/2008
Blog activity suspended until after PDC
I've got like 5 posts in my queue. All of them are drafts, all need work, all need nice graphics to...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 10/03/2008
Northwind Hosting exists, it's better than what you saw and it's called SaaSGrid
Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda was kind enough to demo SaaSGrid to me earlier this week, patient...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 09/11/2008
Concurrency in SSDS
A common concern with SSDS, and a common question I get in many presentations I've given is how to...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 08/01/2008
Claim based security made easy
When we implemented claim based authorization in LitwareHR, we had to write a lot of code and play...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 07/10/2008
Simple GeoRSS utility library - released
I just uploaded the source code for this library, used in the Virtual Earth mash-up described in my...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 07/01/2008
LitwareHR and GeoRSS
Some time ago, I did some experiments with Virtual Earth control and its features. I especially...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/27/2008
Another SSDS sample: BlogEngine.NET on SSDS
As a by-product of a project I'm working on, I've got a working version of BlogEngine.NET on SSDS....
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 06/11/2008
You don't have a beta account with SSDS, but you'd like to use the latest LitwareHR anyway
Well, too bad...No, seriously now, as I mentioned in a previous post, we developed a...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/08/2008
LitwareHR on SSDS available for download
The latest version of LitwareHR is now available for download here. From our CodePlex site: This new...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/06/2008
Paging in SSDS & Parallel Queries
Tim Jarvis raised a good point in my post on cross-container queries which is: how to handle paging?...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 05/05/2008
End to end demo of LitwareHR on SSDS
Here's an end-to-end demo of LitwareHR using SSDS. The total demo lasts about 11 min and you will...
Author: Eugenio Pace - MSFT Date: 04/27/2008