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Major features

WIF has the following major features: * It allows developers to build claims-aware applications by providing a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that help developers write code to make access decisions to applications based on claims. * It provides templates to help developers get started building claims-aware applications. * It provides utilities that facilitate creation of a trust relationship between a claims-aware application (sometimes referred to as a Relying Party application, or RP), and a Security Token Service (STS). * It provides a set of ASP.NET controls that help developers create web pages in claims-aware applications. * It includes a utility that helps developers translate between claims and NT tokens, so that claims-aware applications can be used to access resources that require NT-Token based identity. * It includes functionality that allows identities to be maintained across multiple service boundaries, and allows delegation of claims. * It provides tools to help developers build custom security token services using ASP.NET or WCF.

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"Windows Identity Foundation site"
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