Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications

Getting an authenticated client identity in a service operation

WCF provides various built-in authentication methods either at the transport layer or at the message layer. The client consumer can use a WCF service proxy or ChannelFactory to supply certain client credentials to the service. The following MSDN reference lists all the built-in credential types supported by WCF:

• Selecting a Credential Type

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733836.aspx

After the service request passes authentication, a valid identity will be associated with each service-operation execution context and the service operation code can retrieve the identity information within the operation context.

This recipe will show you how to programmatically retrieve the client ...