For those playing along at home I have built a 0.0.2 release for RPXLib. The only change is a small (but significant) bugfix around a misspelt property name.
Thanks to Willie Tilton for noticing the problem. The release can be found here.
Don't forget to check out the project home page at google code.
I have long been convinced of the worth of OpenId. I am unsure if it is the ultimate solution - but for now it is definitely the best solution we have (imho). When I heard about RPX, a new integration service from JanRain, my interest sky-rocketed. Previously, the thought of manually integrating into the current OpenId world seemed intimidating to me. RPX solves that problem - hands down.
And what does a developer do when confronted by an open API? He writes a custom wrapper in his language of choice - that's what he does.
So this post announces RPXLib, now available on Google Code. It is a .Net wrapper meant to take some of the pain out of RPX integration by handling most of the boring stuff for you. It presents a simplified service API and returns strongly-typed response objects for you to play with. Be sure to take a peek at the documentation wiki.
It is worth noting that this works well on my machine - but I am very interested to hear from others about the benefit that this provides (or lack of benefits, even more importantly). I figure it takes about 2-3 minutes to read the doco and about another 10 minutes to integrate this into your application. Your mileage may vary and I would love to hear your experiences.