Microsoft published some of the .NET assemblies : * Mscorlib.DLL * System.DLL * System.Data.DLL * System.Drawing.DLL * System.Web.DLL * System.Web.Extensions.DLL * System.Windows.Forms.DLL * System.XML.DLL * WPF (UIAutomation*.dll, System.Windows.DLL, System.Printing.DLL, System.Speech.DLL, WindowsBase.DLL, WindowsFormsIntegration.DLL, Presentation*.dll, some others) * Microsoft.VisualBasic.DLL The CardSpace related part don't seem to be in this list. There are some part of the CardSpace documentation

After installing .NET3.5: So if you *really* need your cards then make a backup before installing .NET3.5 . The new - polluted - IE7 user agent string: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04324.17; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022) I copied it from the latest xmldap.org relyingparty . It outputs the user agent string to make documenting the interop tests easier. Please notice that this is no-SSL.

Right after I saw Mike Jones' post that a new version of CardSpace is available I started to download "it". Well, first a download for dotNetFx35setup.exe of about 3MB size started and I thought: "Hey, they really boiled this down from the over 50MB to a manageable size". But then the disappointment… The setup application does not setup .NET35 but downloads another 67MB of hopefully useful and necessary code. Probably it is still to early in the morning and my skepticism is still sleeping... Call