Federation and Issued Tokens

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With Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), you can create clients that communicate securely with services that implement the WS-Federation and WS-Trust specifications. The specifications use XML, SOAP, and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to provide mechanisms that enable authentication and authorization across different trust realms.

In This Section

Federation: Provides an overview of federation.

Federation and Trust: Lists the design issues to be aware of when creating federated services or clients.

How to: Create a Federated Client: Describes the basics of creating a federated client with WCF.

How to: Configure Credentials on a Federation Service: Describes the steps of creating a federated service.

How to: Create a WSFederationHttpBinding: Describes how to configure clients and services that use the WSFederationHttpBinding.

How to: Create a Security Token Service: Describes the steps of creating a security token service.

SAML Tokens and Claims: Describes Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) tokens, which are extensible and enable you to create rich claim types.

How to: Configure a Local Issuer: Describes how to create a local issuer of security tokens.

How to: Disable Secure Sessions on a WSFederationHttpBinding: Describes how to disable secure sessions on a WSFederationHttpBinding. Disabling secure sessions is necessary when creating a Web farm that requires a session for each client.

Reference

System.IdentityModel.Claims

ServiceAuthorizationManager

SamlSecurityToken

IssuedTokenClientCredential

IssuedTokenServiceCredential

IssuedSecurityTokenParameters

IssuedSecurityTokenProvider

WSFederationHttpBinding

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