Welcome Infocard

As a core Java / ex-BEA guy (if I only got a penny every time I told customers to stay away from .NET), I never thought I would say this….it’s been fun playing with Infocards for the past couple of days. Sure, it takes a lifetime to figure out on what you need and what’s the right place to download (MS overusage of “setup.exe” doesn’t really help)….but once you have that figured out, it’s all ‘click’ and ‘play’. Managed to log into Kim Cameron’s Identity Blog using my self-issued Infocard. This is what I did:

1. Harass my IT guy to get a vanilla m/c with WinXP2 (I wasn’t going to risk my own).
2. Downloaded (here) and installed WinFX Runtime Component.
3. Updated some COM+ Hotfix (the installation process guides you there).
4. In my control panel, verified that I have the extra icon for ‘Digital Idenities’.
5. Clicked ‘Digital Identities’ icon and created some dummy infocards (the interface is pretty intuitive).
6. Downloaded IE7 from here.
7. Accessed identityBlog.com and clicked on login.
8. Selected Infocard as the option to login.
9. Installed the ActiveX control (it’s a test machine so I was little more liberal in clicking ‘Yes” to every download).
10. Screen started greying out….(very theatrical….they should add some sound effects too). Picked one of my self-issued inforcard and I’m in.

Some of the screen shots here.

Plan to put together a SP application and hopefully use some managed Infocards in the coming days. Stay tuned.

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6 Responses to “Welcome Infocard”

1. Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » MORE HARDY PIONEERS TRY OUT INFOCARD says:

   March 18, 2006 at 8:21 pm

   [...] So let me start with Ashish Jain. Looks like he is starting an identity blog called iTickr.com. He calls this posting Welcome InfoCard: As a core Java / ex-BEA guy (if I only got a penny every time I told customers to stay away from .NET), I never thought I would say this: it’s been fun playing with Infocards for the past couple of days. Sure, it takes a lifetime to figure out what you need and what’s the right place to download (MS overusage of ’setup.exe’ doesn’t really help)… but once you have that figured out, it’s all ‘click’ and ‘play’. Managed to log into Kim Cameron’s Identity Blog using my self-issued Infocard. This is what I did: [...]
2. Jay Potter says:

   March 19, 2006 at 6:46 pm

   I’ve decided to try out InfoCard. Thought I would go all the way and install a Vista Beta. I was very surprised when I went to the control panel and didn’t see the Digital Identities icon. Do you have to install the WinFX for Vista. That seems very strange to me.
3. email says:

   March 22, 2006 at 11:45 am

   AFAIK you don’t need a separate WinFX install for Vista. However, I’m told (more than once source) that the only working combination at this time is WinXP, WinFX, IE 7 Beta.
4. kumar says:

   March 28, 2006 at 12:38 pm

   Hi Rohan,
   I get an error message “Infocard is not resent”. Kim’s identity blog mentioned Mar 20th download has some issues.However the error I am getting seem like something terribly incorrect. I followed instructions from your blog(thanks!), and installed winfx and ie7 beta.Then created infocards with first name, last name and email.

   Do you relcall if you had to do any additional tasks,(like any ie settings etc.,).

   Thanks
5. kumar says:

   March 28, 2006 at 12:42 pm

   Donot know why but I thought you are Rohan. My apologies for the wrong name.

   Thanks Ashish!
6. forex says:

   December 16, 2007 at 7:29 am

   Hi Rohan,
   I get an error message “Infocard is not resent” as well.. what could possibly be the problem?