Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Hands-on! Beta Edition

Chapter 14. InfoCard

In This Chapter

• Background

• What Is Identity?

• Existing Identity Solutions

• The Laws of Identity

• The Identity Metasystem

• The InfoCard System

• InfoCards in Action

• InfoCard Architecture and Security

• Basic WCF App

• Adding InfoCard

• Federation with InfoCard

• InfoCard from the Browser

Background

In the promised land of Connected Systems, we will be able to build a service using our favorite tools and technologies without introducing constraints as to who might be able to consume that service. It follows that in this WS-* world, where my service can be accessed by anyone or anything with an Internet connection, who that caller is and what he can access becomes rather important.

Unfortunately, as I write, at the dawn of 2006, Information Technology is ...