Helper class that provides mechanism to plug the FederatedSecurityTokenManager to any WCF ServiceHost application. Create an instance of this class and add this as the ServiceCredentials to your ServiceHost.
Namespace: Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens
Assembly: Microsoft.IdentityModel (in microsoft.identitymodel.dll)

Usage

Visual Basic
Dim instance As FederatedServiceCredentials

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Class FederatedServiceCredentials
		Inherits ServiceCredentials
C#
public class FederatedServiceCredentials : ServiceCredentials
C++
public ref class FederatedServiceCredentials : public ServiceCredentials
J#
public class FederatedServiceCredentials extends ServiceCredentials
JScript
public class FederatedServiceCredentials extends ServiceCredentials

Remarks

Extends the System.ServiceModel.Security.ServiceCredentials class. Can be configured on any ServiceHost to create a FederatedSecurityTokenManager which uses SecurityTokenHandlers along with the security token support provided in WCF. This class also provides properties to set OutOfBandTokenResolver which may be used to validate the signature of a SAML token and register a custom SecurityTokenHandler.

To enable an existing WCF service with WIF, the ConfigureServiceHost method of this class needs to be called before calling ServiceHost.open() on that instance. Service host instance needs to be passed as a parameter to the ConfigureServiceHost() call. This call will make the necessary changes in the service host instance to insert WIF features within the WCF message processing pipeline.


Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
   System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityCredentialsManager
     System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceCredentials
      Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FederatedServiceCredentials

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista

Target Platforms

Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Not tested on Windows XP

See Also