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If you have to consume a Web Service that requires Basic Authentication, the normal flow of things is that the first request the client makes is unauthenticated. The server then response with an HTTP 401 response (‘Authentication required’). The client then sends the credentials to the server and the SOAP request goes through. That is [...]

This quick how-to shows you how to create and use certificates in a development environment for use with a self-hosted WCF service. This means that the WCF service is not hosted with IIS, but runs, for example, as a Windows Service. We will use the makecert.exe tool that ships with the Microsoft Windows SDK. The [...]

I have written a small HOW TO on how to use a Customer Membership Provider, a Custom Role-Provider and a Custom Membership User for username/password authentication in a WCF Service that is hosted in a Windows Service. The HOW TO includes a sample implementation of these providers. It also includes a complete Visual Studio Project [...]