title: Can I receive SAML 2.0 message in ASP.NET without WIF?
body: <p>We are planning to receive a SAML assertion from another website into ours (ASP.NET). No one here has ever worked with SAML. We simply need to verify the signed assertion, decrypt the token containing a user id and if we can verify it, log them into our site (authenticate/authorize). We are using Forms Authentication for all other authentication. I would like to avoid installing WIF if possible because my understanding is we'd have to install the runtime on all the developers machines and servers. Our machines are locked down by policy such that it would be a lot of paper work to get it installed. Are there alternatives to WIF and are they realistic to use in an enterprise environment? If so, can someone point me in the right direction, a good tutorial, video, book or anything with examples would be helpful? I looked at some third party components but I'd have the same issue as with WIF on our servers (not to mention dealing with procurement). </p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>