WCF useful links

WCF – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663324.aspx
(.net Framework Developer center, central resource for all things WCF)

WCF 3.5 samples – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751514.aspx
WCF 4.0 samples – http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd483346(VS.100).aspx
(good resource to learn the basics by playing with samples)

WCF screencasts – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/wcf-screencasts.aspx

.Net endpoint blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/
(Blog by the .NET and AppFabric teams about WCF and WF development, deployment, and management)

Bug report/ Feature request/ Feedback to the product team – https://connect.microsoft.com/wcf
(There are useful resources mentioned at the bottom of this page as well)

Detailed WCF security guidance -http://www.codeplex.com/WCFSecurity

Detailed debugging using WCF tracing – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733025.aspx

Compare WCF with other Technologies

The below diagram (extracted from Microsoft web) gives us the comparison of WCF with other services:

Single Sign On – Test Sites added

To make the development and testing easy, I added 3 web sites to the SingleSingleOnResearch as given below:

1) SingleSignOn.Administration (this site is going to have all administrative interfaces in the future)

2) FirstWebSite and

3) SecondWebSite

All the above 3 sites will have the Login page and then allows you to browse to rest of the two sites without re-login. So, please try and let me know your comments and suggestions.

Source Code at: http://sso.codeplex.com

Single Sign On Alpha 1.1 released

Development of Single Sign On is going smoothly. There is a good response for Alpha 1.0 version.

As per Codeplex’s statistics, there were 122 downloads.

I have released Alpha 1.1 version on July 10, 2009. This version includes a Silverlight based UI to test the Single Sign On Service. UI displays the list of Online users and Requested Tokens.

Please have a look at SSO project at: http://sso.codeplex.com/

Single Sign On – Light Weight

As a journey towards the Single Sign On solution, I have creted a project in Codeplex. It is just an initial version.

Developed using WCF, ASP.Net and Silverlight to track the online users. Please have a look at: http://sso.codeplex.com/