Identity and Access Tool

The Identity and Access Tool for Visual Studio 2012 enables you to secure your application with claims based identity and accept users from multiple identity providers.

This extension adds a context sensitive project menu entry to easily add identity capabilities to your Web Applications, MVC Applications and WCF Services. This will provide you with capabilities for developing and testing your application with a Local Development STS, connecting to a corporate identity provider like ADFS2 and using the Windows Azure Access Control Service to connect to other identity provides such as LiveID, Google, Yahoo and Facebook. It does this by updating your web.config file with the proper settings to enable the Windows Identity Foundation in .NET 4.5 and adding the necessary configuration for the identity provider you select.

Requirements
The following prerequisite is required in order to use this extension:

• Visual Studio 2012

Installing the Extension
You can install this tool in the Extension Manager of Visual Studio or download it from here.

1. Download the Identity and Access Tool.vsix file to your local machine.
2. Double-click the Identity and Access Tool.vsix file
3. Launch Visual Studio 2012 and open a Web Application, MVC Application or WCF Service project.
4. Right Click the project name and select Identity and Access in the menu.
5. Select your Identity Provider and the OK to apply the settings to your web.config.

If you are using the Local Development STS you can set additional claim types and values, SAML token formats, or customize the port number on the Local Development STS tab.

You can make additional changes to identity configuration in your web.config on the Configuration tab on subsequent runs of the tool.

Additional Information
You can learn more about how to use Windows Identity Foundation in your application though the following sample applications.

• Claims Aware Forms Authentication
• Claims Aware MVC Application
• Claims Aware Web Application
• Claims Aware Web Farm
• Claims Aware Web Service
• Claims Based Authorization
• Custom Token
• Federation Metadata