Scott Densmore

Configuring TeamCity 7 to build your VS2010 .NET project using Git repository

You are using Continuous Integration, Unit Tests and Code Coverage aren't you? If not, shame on you.

Configuring TeamCity 7 to build your VS2010 .NET project using Git repository: 

(Via Southworks Blogs.)

Simple Capped Exponential Back-Off for Queues

Really cool post on Windows Azure Queues. This is something that would be easy to replace in our guidance on Windows Azure.

Simple Capped Exponential Back-Off for Queues: "

Recently Steve Marx and I spent a few hours working on a best practices document for Windows Azure. As expected, this was a fun and educational experience – plenty of goofing around, but also some really good discussion on things to think about when building applications for Windows Azure. One of the items we discussed is a better approach for sleeping inside the Worker Role when pulling from queues. Rather than defaulting to a retry every 10 seconds we decided that the best approach is to exponentially back-off on your queue reads while capping it with an upper bound. "

(Via Wade Wegner.)

Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure Release

It always takes a while for your project to go live on MSDN but it is alive… ALIVE!  We really put a lot of effort into this one and is the last in the series. You should go check it out.

I have spent the past couple of years knee deep with Windows Azure and it has been awesome.  I can't believe what we were able to accomplish:

• Moving Applications to the Cloud, 2nd Edition
• Developing Applications for the Cloud, 2nd Edition
• Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure
• A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition)

Working on our new project is completely new! Will let you know more later!

Thinktecture.IdentityModel.* on GitHub

Thinktecture.IdentityModel.* on GitHub: "

I uploaded Thinkecture.IdentityModel (core) and Thinktecture.IdentityModel.Web (WCF Web Programing Model) to github.

I thought that’s the easiest to make the source code available, especially for the stuff that is work in progress.

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(Via LeastPrivilege.)

 

Great to here this!  These guys are amazing and I highly recommend using this over rolling your own.

Your own lightweight & robust STS in Windows Azure

The guys at thinktecture have come up with a cool way for you to have your own STS in your application that is simple and lightweight.  These guys review our Claims Identity Guide and I can say these guys know Identity. Go download yourself a copy and get your identity on!

Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure RC

This is the 3rd in our series of Windows Azure Guidance.  This one is our release candidate and we should be done this week. There is a lot of post production to get the book done and onto MSDN, yet it will not be to much longer. While you wait, give the RC a whirl.

Enjoy!

Style Cop: The Effective Way

We use Style Cop to keep everyone honost  on our projects. It make it easy and integrates pretty well with ReSharper. I have never stopped to write up how we do this, but Geoff Cox from SouthWorks does a pretty good job here. Treat it like a new project… start from a blank slate.

An Easy Intro For How to Build a Fluent Interface

Jorge Rowies does it again. If you saw / liked the ACS Fluent Interface post, you will love to read how you can do the same thing for your API. Go read his new post and enjoy!

Fluent API for Windows Azure ACS Management

The guys at SouthWorks have been hard at work again.  We have been using the same setup program for our Windows Azure Projects to configure ACS for a while now.  It is a bit rough around the edges but we have not had time to invest a little upgrade. Well, leave it to these guys to go above and beyond: Jorge Rowies has create a fluent API for setting things up. Looks great. Check it out and start forking in GitHub.

Thinktecture IdentityServer v1.0

If you are interested in Claims Based Identity you have to check this out.  I can't recommend this enough. I am really looking forward to the Azure release!

Thinktecture IdentityServer v1.0: "

Yeah – it is finally done. I just uploaded the v1 bits to Codeplex and the documentation to our server. Here’s the official blurb…

Thinktecture IdentityServer is an open source security token service based on Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF and WIF.

High level features

• Multiple protocols support (WS-Trust, WS-Federation, OAuth2, WRAP, JSNotify, HTTP GET)
• Multiple token support (SAML 1.1/2.0, SWT)
• Out of the box integration with ASP.NET membership, roles and profile
• Support for username/password and client certificates authentication
• Support for WS-Federation metadata
• Support for WS-Trust identity delegation
• Extensibility points to customize configuration and user management handling

Disclaimer
I did thorough testing of all features of IdentityServer - but keep in mind that this is an open source project and I am the only architect, developer and tester on the team.
IdentityServer also lacks many of the enterprise-level features like configuration services, proxy support, operations integration etc.
I only recommend using IdentityServer if you also understand how it works (to be able to support it). I am offering consulting to help you with customization and lock down - contact me.

Download. Documentation.

Up next is v1 of the Azure version. Have fun!

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(Via LeastPrivilege.)