Category: C#

Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture

I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To handle that, I set up an Azure VM with Swedish installed and made a special unit test that would run all other tests with different UI cultures. When I first understood that I had tests that were broken… Continue reading Rerunning all Unit Tests with Different UI Culture

Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM

I was recently made aware that some unit tests for Kentor.AuthServices were failing on non-English computers. To be able to test a different setup I turned to Azure and set up a machine with VS2013 Pro and installed Swedish language support. Once I found the right way, it was very straight forward. The problem was… Continue reading Add a Language to Windows Azure Visual Studio VM

A Free Stub Idp för Testing SAML2

I’m happy to announce a new part of the Kentor.AuthServices project: An open Identity Provider for testing. It is available at http://stubidp.kentor.se. The Idp functionality is still extremely limited, as it only can send unsolicited SAML2 responses to a service provider. If you’re using the Kentor.AuthServices library to implement a service provider in an ASP.NET… Continue reading A Free Stub Idp för Testing SAML2

Kentor.AuthServices vs. Shibboleth for SAML2 on ASP.NET

When creating Kentor.AuthServices the goal was to create a solution that as seamlessly as possible integrates with the security model of ASP.NET. This is a comparison of Kentor.AuthServices and Shibboleth, the existing open source solution that seems to be mostly used. When I decided to write my own service provider for .NET I had done… Continue reading Kentor.AuthServices vs. Shibboleth for SAML2 on ASP.NET