Recently, I was architecting a multi-tenant solution. The solution enables each tenant to have multiple devices connected. The devices are then able to communicate with the server component, but also, the server component needs to be able to communicate with each of the devices. To do that, we also needed…
In my previous post, I showed a basic example of how to use the OWIN Identity provider to configure our application to use a WS-Federation Identity Service. However, that particular way of doing it has one big drawback (well, depending on how you look at it): because you specify the…
We are using OWIN to configure our WS-Federation, and our identity server requires sending certain parameters with the Sign In Request Message. In the old days that meant adding a well-known method to the Global.asax file. Using Owin, this has to be done slightly differently. The important part for…
Deciding to go with a tool like VSO, for a company, is not easy. There are several alternatives, including free ones, that give you just as much, maybe even more - in terms of pricing and/or flexibility. So, in order to get our team to use it (or not)…
When developingoccasionally offlinedistributed systems, sometimes, you need to rethink the communication between them. Our architecture for the product we are building is composed ofAzure Service Bus Topics [http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-bus-dotnet-how-to-use-topics-subscriptions/] . Those are nothing more than a fancy queue, that allows multiple readers. More specifically, in…
It was a long night - one lasting 27 hours, actually. It was the moments before deploy. Your team is counting on you. Your customer is counting on you. You are counting on you. You hit deploy. You wait. You pray. You've cut some corners to make the deadline, but…
In MVC, there is this cool concept of a partial view. It sort of sounds like an old-schoolControl [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386416(v=vs.100).aspx].And in reality, it's pretty close to that. Except, there's a huge problem if you actually want to use them as…
When preparing for my presentation at NTK [http://www.ntk.si], the largest IT conference in Slovenia, titledCloud Patterns: How to write applications for the cloud, I explored different architectural patterns that have to do with reliability of our cloud applications. One of the most interesting patterns, in my opinion,…