dbartholomew.net now supports two types of Information Card.

This portal, http://www.dbartholomew.net, supports self issued cards.

http://www.dbartholomew.net/managedcards supports cards issued by the Live Labs STS.

Unfortunately dbartholomew.net has been offline for a fwe days due to server problems.

Sorry for any inconvenience, this has not been 100% resolved at this stage as the system is not currently enfocing SSL on CardSpace pages.

This will be corrected shortly.

Since I was privileged enough to work with Steven Woodward in January I have thought about many of the things he taught me, but nothing as much as his Eighth Law of Identity - "There must be something in it for everyone".

I've been trying to work out why there isn't much momentum in the CardSpace world - when compared to the WPF's, the WCF's and WF's of .Net 3.0.

I wonder what is missing, and the only thing I can come up with is that the success of CardSpace, and in turn the Identity Metasystem, relies on sales of Vista.

However, I find this to be a bit of a "Chicken and Egg" problem - why would people move to Vista (or install the .Net Framework 3.0 on XP) if web sites are not implementing CardSpace? Why would web sites invest in enhancing their systems when the potential user base is so small?

I think that out of the .Net 3.0 technologies, CardSpace will have the most important impact on the Internet ...

This screencast is everything you need to know to prepare a development envinronment for CardSpace. Richard Turner surely knows his stuff.

It also solved the problems I had when I setup www.webhost4life.com to read CardSpace tokens.

It also provided me a nice entry into PowerShell - I don't see any reason to use Start -> Run > Cmd again.

Thanks Richard!

I've created a CardSpace example at https://www.dbartholomew.net/ajax_example/

You can submit an Information Card, and you'll see the data from the InfoCard displayed. Notice the page doesn't refresh, as the time doesn't change.

I'll post code and a screencast of this work on www.readify.net soon. If you want more information, then contact me through the contact page - or, leave a comment!

I have created a WPF/E CardSpace sample based on Vittorio's outline.

I runs well at https://www.dbartholomew.net/wpfe_example/default.html.

To make my site look a little better I created the WPF/E tab that you can see on the left, and added an IFrame module to the page.

However, the sample doesn't work in the IFrame - even though the page is loaded using SSL.

This has lead me to the conclusion that the entire page must use SSL, not just the page containing CardSpace based code.

I have a temporary problem forcing the WPF/E page to use SSL, this should be fixed within a day or so.

I thought that my Live Labs Managed Card was missing claims, which was preventing the CardSpace UI from sending the card to the site.

Turns out that I was using the wrong token type - so far my self issued cards have been using SAML 1.0 tokens, whereas the Live Labs STS required SAML 1.1 tokens.

I've updated my system to allow the TokenType to be configurable, so now you can choose the token type for each DNN portal.

Managed Cards are still not ready, I'm waiting on an update of the TokenProcessor from Microsoft that will allow the Live Labs STS cards to be used.

Stay posted..

I've create a child portal in this DotNetNuke installation to test the use of CardSpace with Managed Cards.

At this stage the implementation of the DNN portal has gone well. The portal specifies that it requires a managed card that has been issued by the Microsoft Live Labs STS.

Unfortunately, the cards that are created by the Live Labs STS user interface do not seem to be complete. The sample website that you can download from the Live Labs STS shows that the PPID and the nickname are required claims. The two cards that I've generated from the site do not contain these claims, therefore I cannot send them to the child portal.

I've got an email off to the team at the Live Labs STS site, and I hope they can point out exactly what's gone wrong here. So, stay tuned..

I've extended the DNN CardSpace module to accept managed cards. I'll have a demo environment set up over the weekend that will allow you to use managed cards from the Microsoft Live Labs STS.

Eventually, this will allow a DotNetNuke installation to allow registration and sign in from a Microsoft Live Id - or any other managed information card.