Jason Alexander

Andrew announced this on the mailing list, but DotNetOpenId 0.1.1 was released yesterday!

It's been awhile, but this was a pet project that I started quite awhile back when I decided to start porting the JanRain boo libraries over to C#. Digging in, I found lots of interest in this area, and Andrew had built some ASP.NET controls for OpenId already - it seemed like a perfect fit!

And, boy, was it - Andrew has been a MACHINE. Unfortunately, I've been busy and haven't done much other then then initial porting of the core libraries, since then he and others have spent substantial amounts of time improving the libraries, controls and server and they continue to set an incredible pace for pushing this project forward.

We're using much of this work in Community Server 2008, and if you're looking to add OpenId support to your .NET application, you should really look at this library - it's one of the most mature, and supported project out there for .NET!

Meanwhile, here's Andrew's original post:

*DotNetOpenId 0.1.1* DotNetOpenId version 0.1.1 is done. Included in this release are feature enhancements and a security fix for OpenId providers. Find out what's new with version 0.1.1 . Download the binary and samples here . *What's coming...* Coming up next, version 0.1.2 will have support for partial trusted hosting environments and no requirement for session state for consumers. Early adopters are welcome to check this version out of branches/0.1 and test it. *Contributions...* Do you want to contribute to the project? Email dotnetopenid@googlegroups.com with what you can offer. Right now we especially need people who can write unit tests and extra strings for localization. If you happen to be an expert on the OpenId 2.0 spec, we're scoping the work for upgrading to support that in version 0.3 as well. -- Andrew Arnott