The creation of a managed card will often be part of a more complex process, such as an account provisioning workflow.

The current proof of concept demonstrates how you can use a workflow activity for 1) gathering the card generation parameters and 2) issue a managed card, whose bits will be available for further processing to the subsequent stages of a workflow.

The Managed Card Creation Activity does not contain any card generation code: it takes advantage of the excellent CardWriter tool sample, available at http://cardspace.netfx3.com/files/folders/samples-july-ctp/entry4926.aspx. This arrangement avoids branching the card generation sample code, that is free to evolve independently from the current sample (provided that the INI format for card description won’t change).

This sample is not officially supported.  However, you may provide feedback or ask questions at my blog http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci.

For questions about the card writer example see Garrett’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/garretts/