Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox for Windows Cardspace
This is so unfair! I’ve spent this last week figuring out how to build my own MembershipProvider so that I can use CardSpace on an ASP.NET website without resorting to card association and this morning I log onto my RSS aggregator and Kim Cameron is blogging about Christian Arnold who has built a Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox for Windows CardSpace.
Actually, it’s not unfair, I’m just jealous!
I’m still going to figure out how I’m going to implement my own membership provider as I think it’s something vital to the overall understanding of security on the web but for my talk for SA Developer .NET and BB&D I’ll also be investigating and reporting back on this toolbox.
I was expecting something like this before long and especially in the next version of Visual Studio (if not in Orcas then definitely in the one after) because the secret to adoptability is how easy it will be to implement. For ASP.NET sites, developers have no excuse not to implement either Windows or Forms authentication on their websites because of the drag-and-drop controls and their extensions.
