Increase session token lifetime in passive federation scenario

I'm currently working on MVC 5 web application which claims based authentication. Recently I run into two small problems:

1. How to increase session token lifetime
2. Configure application to work properly in load balanced environment

AngularJS, SignalR and promises

Recently I have started to play a bit with AngularJS and SignalR. When I was developing first, simple solution I run into interesting problem.

DevDay 2013

I could not miss DevDay this year, mainly because of Jon Skeet. Master of answers on StackOverflow came to Cracow.

Windows Azure Active Directory Solutions

While I was looking for guidelines regarding implementation of WCF REST services with Federated Authentication I found this nice TechNet article with number of scenarios. It aggregates number of possible scenarios with pretty good explanation. And if you are looking for some more info in this topic, there is this nice free book from MS A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control.

Have a nice reading!

Running Selenium WebDriver UI tests from TeamCity

Task is fairly simple but require one tweak.

When you run TeamCity agent as service, you need to allow interaction with user desktop. Keith Dahlby created nice solution to enable this feature for service working under any account which is not Local System.

After this tweak, works like a charm!

Executing scripts remotely from TeamCity using PowerShell

The problem I had to solve seems to be pretty simple on the beginning. Execute couple of deployment scripts on remote Windows 2008 R2 box, to perform deployment of web applications using with custom package manager used in our project.

JSONP WCF service over SSL

In .NET Framework 3.5 JSONP message encoding is not available out of the box. In this short post I will show how to configure WCF to support JSONP endpoint over SSL.