Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 Cookbook for Developing SOA Applications

Using username authentication with an ASP.NET membership provider

WCF supports username authentication, which requires the service caller to supply a username/password token for validation. By default, if we simply turn on username authentication at the message layer, the WCF service runtime will use the Windows SAM database to validate the username/password credentials. However, we can also use our custom database or account storage to perform the validation, and if you are familiar with ASP.NET web application development, you will find it quite convenient to directly use the ASP.NET membership database for WCF username authentication.

In this recipe, we will show you how to enable username authentication against the ASP.NET membership database ...