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DotNetOpenAuth: Debugging and Tracing OpenID and OAuth on ASP.NET (or MVC) using Glimpse

Synopsis: Understanding exactly what is happening under the hood when it comes to working with OpenID and OAuth can be challenging even for the seasoned IDM developer. What I have found to help, is being able to see the communications between all the p… Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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DotNetOpenAuth v3.2 is done

DotNetOpenAuth v3.2 just came off the presses.  Lots of feature work and a few interop fixes in this release.  The biggest highlights being: Very simple story for both RPs and OPs interested in interoperating with others whether they use sreg or… Continue reading

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Help is coming for the Sreg/AX interop problem for OpenID

Just to get your mouth watering for DotNetOpenAuth v3.2… V3.2 has a new “behaviors” plugin capability that lets RPs and OPs get additional functionality with very little effort.  For example, OPs can add PPID identifier support very easily with jus… Continue reading

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Uri.EscapeDataPath and HttpUtility.UrlEncode are NOT the same

For some reason Microsoft defined URI escaping twice: Uri.EscapeDataString and HttpUtility.UrlEncode seem to cover the same need. There’s another pair: Uri.EscapeUriString and HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode which again seem to be redundant with each othe… Continue reading

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DotNetOpenAuth 3.0 released

Download it now. Previously named DotNetOpenId in its v1.x and 2.x releases, the v3.0 release is rechristened DotNetOpenAuth to reflect its support for multiple authentication and authorization protocols.  Sporting OpenID, OAuth and InfoCard support … Continue reading

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DotNetOpenAuth 3.0 Beta 2 released

DotNetOpenAuth, previously named DotNetOpenId, is getting nearer to its major 3.0 release.   With beta 2, we have a security reviewed, feature complete library for .NET use of the OAuth and OpenID protocols.  Although Beta 1 was very rough and was… Continue reading

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