We need to install the following SDK for proceeding with
further articles.
- Windows
Identity Foundation SDK 4.0
The Windows
Identity Foundation is a framework for building identity-aware
applications. The framework abstracts the WS-Trust and WS-Federation
protocols and presents to developers APIs for building security token services
and claims-aware applications. Applications can use the framework to process
tokens issued from security token services and make identity-based decisions at
the web application or web service.
The SDK integrate with Visual Studio and provides templates
to ease the tasks of developing Windows Identity based applications. We will be using this in the next article
related to Access Control AppFabric.
Download
You can download the SDK using the following Url.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=4451
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Download the appropriate version. For Visual Studio 2010, the 4.0 version is
required.
Installation
In the installation wizard please note the installation
folder as it will be required in for future use.
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Post Installation
Verification
We can verify whether the
required Visual Studio extensions are installed. Open the Visual Studio and create an azure
project with a web role in it.
Right click on the web role and
you should be getting the following menu item named Add STS Reference. This is
the Secured Token Service menu option which will perform necessary assembly
reference and configuration change on execution.
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If you are able to see the
following window, then the installation was successful.
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