Using ASP.NET Membership Provider authentincation in a WCF service

Question

Is there a way to use the same username and password from the membership provider for a WCF service authentication? if so, which binding does it supports? I need to extract a pr

Answer 1

Basically any binding that accepts username/password as client credentials for message security can be configured to use the ASP.NET membership provider.

Check out this MSDN docs on how to use the ASP.NET Membership provider in WCF - you need to configure your binding for client credentials of type "UserName"

and the service to use ASP.NET Membership for user authentication:

and of course, you have to apply this service behavior to your services when configuring them!

   
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The UserName client credential type is supported by basicHttpBinding, wsHttpBinding, netTcpBinding - so pretty much all the usual suspects.