URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0
In the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft introduced ASP.NET Routing, which decouples the URL of a resource from the physical file on the web server. With ASP.NET Routing you, the developer, define routing rules map route patterns to a class that generates the content. For example, you might indicate that the URL Categories/CategoryName maps to a [...]
Building a Claims-Based Security Model in WCF – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article I discussed the motivation behind implementing a claims-based security model for your WCF services and introduced a simple approach to normalizing claims for different credential types using a custom authorization policy. During the article, I discussed the following: How different user credentials are mapped to a set of claims [...]
Building a Claims-Based Security Model in WCF – Part 1
Traditional security models for intranet and Internet applications use some form of username and password to authenticate users. Client-server applications deployed to a common domain often rely on Windows credentials (NTLM or Kerberos), while services exposed to the Internet often require a username and password to be passed in an interoperable format (WS-Security) to be [...]