New and Notable 254

Service Security/Identity Management/SOA

• I am super thrilled to see Microsoft roll out "Zermatt", a .NET developer framework and SDK to help build claims-based applications. I,  like Eugenio here, had to roll out my own a couple of months ago in a gig. I made use of Dominick's excellent LeastPrivilege.IdentityModel library in the meantime. Eugenio's post lists a number of resources to get started so check it out!!
• Via Gunnar, found about Arnon's post on taking a greater view of SOA Security, which I wholeheartedly agree with

CLR/DLR

• Via Dominick, also found out that the CLR security team has a CodePlex site and Shawn's blog has the details
• Exposing Custom Performance Counters in .NET
• A bit more formalism as to why CLR's MM is broken on x86/x64
• Cool! Ben Hall is working on IronEditor, a simple application designed to make it easier to pick up and start coding against the DLR based languages.

SQL Server/Data Dude

• How do you shutdown a running SQLCLR appdomain?
• Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP is here!