WIF : Migrate from WIF 3.5 to WIF 4.5 and VS 2010 to VS 2012

Been going through this exercise lately and thought I would document for others.

Some references:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj157091.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj157089.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh873305.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh987037.aspx

Copy project to another directory, make all files R/W and then open with VS 2012. Check migration report.

Remove source control references if applicable.

Under Properties / Application / Target Framework, change to 4.5.

Remove Microsoft.IdentityModel from References

Add System.IdentityModel and System.IdentityModel.Services to references.

Change “using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Claims” to “using System.Security.Claims”

Change IClaimsPrincipal to ClaimsPrincipal

Change IClaimsIdentity to ClaimsIdentity

Change claim.ClaimType to claim.Type. Similarly for ClaimValue etc.

'FederatedPassiveSignInStatus' control has been removed. Remove all references. This includes the
<%@ Register assembly="Microsoft.IdentityModel"
namespace="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.Controls" tagprefix="wif" %>
in the aspx pages.

Add STS / FedUtil functionality has been removed. You need to download the “Identity and Access Tool” (available via NuGet).

Running the tool makes “different” changes to the web.config e.g. adds sections for system.identityModel.and a ida:FederationMetadataLocation section.

Comment out all the microsoft.identityModel sections in the web.config.

Update:

<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
<!-- <add name="WSFederationAuthenticationModule" type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.WSFederationAuthenticationModule, Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" preCondition="managedHandler" />-->
<!-- <add name="SessionAuthenticationModule" type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Web.SessionAuthenticationModule, Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" preCondition="managedHandler" />-->
<add name="WSFederationAuthenticationModule" type="System.IdentityModel.Services.WSFederationAuthenticationModule, System.IdentityModel.Services, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
<add name="SessionAuthenticationModule" type="System.IdentityModel.Services.SessionAuthenticationModule, System.IdentityModel.Services, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>
</modules>

Enjoy!