Transport level security VS message level security in WCF

Transport level security VS message level security in WCF   Advantages of Transport level security Does not need any extra coding as protocol inherent security is used. Performance is better as we can use hardware accelerators to enhance performance. There is lot of interoperability support and communicating clients do not need to understand WS security as it’s built in the protocol itself. Disadvantages...

Default types of WCF bindings in .NET

Default types of WCF bindings in .NET   Within the Windows Communication Foundation programming model, bindings are represented by the System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding class. All binding classes must derive from this base class. Following are the different bindings provided by WCF by default: 1. BasicHttpBinding 2. WSHttpBinding 3. WSDualHttpBinding 4. WSFederationHttpBinding 5. NetTcpBinding...

Client Credential Type in WCF

Different Client Credential Type provided in WCF – Windows communication foundation   The choice of client credential type depends on the security mode in place. For transport security you can require a Windows credential or certificate-and there are variations on how Windows credentials are passed via TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. Message security supports any of the following settings for clientCredentialType: None...