Saturday, July 17, 2010

Windows Indentity Foundation – Custom Security Token Service and the relying party configuration

The last couple of days I’ve been coding with the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) in order to create a WS Federation Security Token Service (STS) that provides the user authentication for multiple relying parties (RPs). I decided to write a small tutorial and a sample (full commented) project that describes the basic steps that are required in order to setup the authentication via passive federation.