It is a really hard paced week here at the Build Windows (8) launch event (//build/). The 3500-5000, roughly, developers who are here are all scrambling to keep up while picking up pieces of our brains from the floors since most of what we see here in Anaheim CA is blowing our mind! Yes almost literally. Color me impressed folks! The fact that we were given a Preview Tablet with Windows 8 and all the new development tools was really awesome: With this we can get going immediately and develop the new Metro style apps with...

It is the night before the BIG announcements everyone is now eagerly anticipating. Speculations are running amok among the delegates here @ Build Windows. Fans are ready to cheer and competitors are dreading. Anticipation is a powerful tool and I trust you Microsoft not to let us down! At this point it is useless to rehash a lot of speculations since I don’t know. All of the softies are claiming equal levels of ignorance (and as usual if they did know they could not tell). This last bit is just a fancier way of saying “I’m not in the loop!”...

How do you do Dependency Injection on a custom ClaimsAuthenticationManager and ClaimsAuthorizationManager when you use Windows Identity Foundation and Claims Based Authentication? What you want to do is set a Factory or some kind of instance Resolver for the instance creation of the two manager instances. Can this be done? (Concept page for WIF managers and OriginalIssuer) According to The Man himself Mr. Vittorio Bertocci it was not a scenario that made the cut on the feature list for the current version of WIF: If @vibronet says to try to do it who am I to...