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CHAPTER 10 ■ .NET 3.0: PROGRAMMING WITH CARDSPACE
Figure 10-8. The CardSpace card has signed you into the site.
Creating a Web Site That Uses CardSpace
The previous example demonstrated how a web site can use CardSpace on the client site
to request and receive client credentials. In this section, you’ll step through what it takes
to build this application and run it on IIS. While CardSpace works on IIS 5, 6, and 7, this
tutorial demonstrates installing certificates on IIS 7.
Preparing Your Development Environment for CardSpace
Your development environment will need some configuration before you can use Card-
Space effectively. Before you do anything else, make sure that you have the Windows SDK
installed. Within the Windows SDK, find the file WCFSamples.zip in the samples directory. In
here, you’ll find the technology samples folder containing CardSpace samples.
Look at the UsingCardSpacewithIE7 sample (note that CardSpace is not supported
on earlier versions of Internet Explorer) and open the setup.bat file, using Notepad to
inspect it.
Each CardSpace sample uses a similar setup, and they all follow the same four steps.
Execute the setup.bat file to install the sample. The next sections will describe how it sets
up CardSpace on your server.
Step 1: Registering CAPICOM.dll
The batch file should register CAPICOM.dll for you. On some systems this fails, so if you
are having trouble installing the CardSpace samples, register it manually. You do this by
changing to the Bin folder in the Windows SDK directory and issuing the following command
from a DOS prompt:
Regsvr32 /s capicom.dll