Interesting interview with Dominick Baier to discuss his new course Introduction to Identity and Access Control in .Net 4.5. The link is here.
To quote:
“ [Dominick] Yeah, that’s a good question. So, as I just said, Microsoft basically injected these new base classes. And they were really careful that they didn’t break compatibility with existing systems. So, if you are used to using the IIdentity.Name property, for example, what they do under the covers is they go to the clams collection and search for a name claim and give you back that value. So, from the outside, this thing works the same, under the covers, it uses claims. If you are used to use–IsInRole for example, or like the existing like the authorization module in ASP.NET, then what under the covers is happening is that is in role search, it’s for a role claim and to look if that is part of your claims collection. So, in other words, if you haven’t done any heavy customization of .NET built-in security system, things should just work in 4.5. That means, you don’t take advantage of the new system but you don’t break your application just by compiling against 4.5. That also means that you can gradually move into this claims-based world. So you can make use of this new property called Claims which is a collection of statements that you can attach to a user. And yeah, for existing applications, things shouldn’t change at least not from the outside. If you are investing in a new system, or you are not happy with what you have so far, then it’s definitely worth to look like trying to make use of the claims-based infrastructure right from the start. But, I guess the good news is that your systems shouldn’t break, at least if you haven’t done anything radical to .NET built-in infrastructure.”
So hopefully things will just work as normal after the migration.
You can see the class diagram changes at Identity in .NET 4.5–Part 1: Status Quo (Beta 1).
Enjoy!
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