My WCF Service uses a custom credentials validator for custom Message-based security, because I want to ensure each client calling an operation on my web service has a corresponding username and password in my database.
Imports System.IdentityModel.Selectors
Imports System.IdentityModel.Tokens
Public Class CredentialsValidator
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I'm trying to gain a better understanding of WCF's dispatch process in particular the impact and effect on the various extensibility points. From the web pages listed at the bottom, it appears that WCF will do the following in the stated sequence once a message is passed to the dispatcher by the channel stack.
Message Inspector
Operati...
I am trying to understand how I would implement message framing with WCF. The goal is to create a server in WCF that can handle proprietary formats over Tcp. I can't use the net.Tcp binding because that is only for SOAP.
I need to write a custom channel that would receive messages in the following format
. An example message would be ...