SAML and .NET?

[Bob]

I'm doing a scoping study for a Single-Sign-On integration project with a
client. The client's SSO interface is built on SAML 1.1 specification using
Verisign TSIK, and needless to say, they have a java environment. We are
100% .NET. I was surprised that I couldn't find any resources on
implementing SAML in .NET, given that SAML uses pretty much the same
technology as Microsoft does in its WSE. Has anyone done this? Any help or
pointing me to some resources is appreciated.

Bob

[Dilip Krishnan]

Hello bob,
I'd say use WSE as your base and develop custom xml tokens [0] and a corresponding
token manager

[0] - [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wse/html/f1d9ebe0-902a-44d5-92af-e8b2ddc256ab.asp[/url]
HTH
Regards,
Dilip Krishnan
MCAD, MCSD.net
dkrishnan at geniant dot com
[url]http://www.geniant.com[/url]

> I'm doing a scoping study for a Single-Sign-On integration project
> with a client. The client's SSO interface is built on SAML 1.1
> specification using Verisign TSIK, and needless to say, they have a
> java environment. We are 100% .NET. I was surprised that I couldn't
> find any resources on implementing SAML in .NET, given that SAML uses
> pretty much the same technology as Microsoft does in its WSE. Has
> anyone done this? Any help or pointing me to some resources is
> appreciated.
>
> Bob
>

[Scott Mitchell [MVP]]

> I'm doing a scoping study for a Single-Sign-On integration project

> with a client. The client's SSO interface is built on SAML 1.1
> specification using Verisign TSIK, and needless to say, they have a
> java environment. We are 100% .NET. I was surprised that I couldn't
> find any resources on implementing SAML in .NET, given that SAML uses
> pretty much the same technology as Microsoft does in its WSE. Has
> anyone done this?

You might want to get in touch with Michele Leroux Bustamante. In a blog
entry at [url]http://www.dasblonde.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2a7d365c-e4ac-4bdc-9d45-9cd0190421af[/url]
she says: "SAML will be supported, because WSE is extensible. Actually, Benjamin
Mitchell and I worked on a SAML sample for our interoperability demonstration
with Axis/SourceID.so we kinda already have a start on that!"

So she might have an actual SAML implementation in .NET... worth dropping
her a line to discuss it further...

Happy Programming

[componentspace]

ComponentSpace has SAML v1.1 and SAML v2.0 components for .NET and ASP.NET.

The components fully support single sign-on (SSO).

They're developed in C# and provide an easy to use API for enabling SAML SSO in ASP.NET applications.

They support .NET 2.0 and above.

More details may be found at [url]http://www.componentspace.com/saml[/url].

[ComponentSpace]

If you're after SAML single sign-on (SSO) rather than SAML web service support, please take a look at the ComponentSpace SAML components for .NET.

More details may be found at [url]http://www.componentspace.com/saml[/url].

Thanks.