[Edit: Added Silverlight SxS con WPF/E] In short: this is a tutorial on invoking Cardspace from a Sliverlight [WPF/E] control and how to use Silverlight [WPF/E] for showing data from a token . So easy that a long haired architect can do it :-) Silverlight [WPF/E] is Microsoft's technology for developing rich internet applications, but it is also going to be CROSS PLATFORM ( the CTP it is already available for Mac ). In light of the awesome work of the Bandit guys on an identity selector on other platforms , I believe it is important to start thinking about how to use this new RIA technology together with identity. In recent times I'm hearing more and more people interested in Rich Internet Applications, or RIA. That usually brings the discussion pretty quickly on Silverlight [WPF/E], our cross platform presentation technology that leverages a subset of XAML for doing cool things inside your browser. I am often asked how to plug CardSpace into it, so I thought to put toghether a post that shows how to do that. As you know it's few years that I am a server guy, so I don't spend too much time on colorful stuff: however I also like to cross pollinate different technologies, and I especially love to do it with CardSpace (I did it with WPF , with WF , with WCF and WPF ). Yesterday night I downloaded the WPF/E SDK , the WPF/E runtime for Windows and blocked 1 hour on the calendar of my excellent colleague Laurence Moroney , probably the best mentor I could get for ramping up super fast
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