Author Archives: Andrew
DotNetOpenAuth v4.0.1 released
DotNetOpenAuth 4.0.1 has shipped with some key bug fixes. If you like to review work completed in this release, you may review the GitHub milestone. Get it now. We need your help and financial contributions. Please support this project and make a donation … Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth 4.0 released
DotNetOpenAuth 4.0 has shipped. There are breaking changes, mostly in your web.config file if you’ve previously had entries related to DotNetOpenAuth, so upgrade carefully. But if you’re installing DotNetOpenAuth into a new project, it’s never been easier to now with … Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth v3.4.4 released
DotNetOpenAuth v3.4.4 released yesterday. You can download it free now. So what’s new about it? Overall: Upgraded to latest Code Contracts version. RP/OP:Improved avoidance some unhandled VerificationExceptions that could be thrown on partial trust hosts due to a bug in … Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth v3.4.3 released
DotNetOpenAuth has just seen a minor release to v3.4.3. Fixes center around corner case interoperability issues that cause a very small percentage (<0.5%) of OpenID users to be unable to log into your relying party web sites. A few other random … Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth v3.4 now available
You can go download DotNetOpenAuth v3.4 today. Highlights of the new version include: Support for Google Apps for Domains issued OpenIDs. This required special work since Google has their own flavor of OpenID discovery that had to be supported … Continue reading
Rest in peace, ExtremeSwank OpenID and OAuth
ExtremeSwankOpenID and ExtremeSwankOAuth, both libraries authored by John Ehn, have been discontinued according to the project sites respective home pages which have a new note that reads: “Note: This … Consumer is no longer in development.” Ext… Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth v3.3 is released
It’s been nearly six months since v3.2 was released. So what’s in v3.3 that took so long to bake? Well, a lot of it was waiting for and getting used to Code Contracts to mature enough to bet on the technology. The most exciting changes thou… Continue reading
VS2008 project template for OpenID and InfoCard relying parties
I finally built a project template to make it easier to write an OpenID relying party web site using C# and ASP.NET. Up to this point all we had were the sample RPs that ship with DotNetOpenAuth, which were deliberately kept simple. They didn’t u… Continue reading
Optimal OpenID UX finally underway
I’m finally making progress on building a set of HTML and javascript files that can be used on any OpenID relying party web site to allow visitors to easily log in with OpenID, without even knowing what OpenID is. I mentioned my goal to do this som… Continue reading
How to easily fetch OpenID attributes, regardless of the Provider
In a previous article, I bemoan the pain of writing an OpenID Relying Party that wants to fetch user attributes from their OpenID Provider, because of the at least 4 ways in which those attributes must be requested. And then later I promised that Dot… Continue reading
