NetworkCredential Class
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Provides credentials for password-based authentication schemes such as basic, digest, NTLM, and Kerberos authentication.
Assembly: System.Net (in System.Net.dll)
The NetworkCredential type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | NetworkCredential() | Initializes a new instance of the NetworkCredential class. |
| NetworkCredential(String, String) | Initializes a new instance of the NetworkCredential class with the specified user name and password. |
| NetworkCredential(String, String, String) | Initializes a new instance of the NetworkCredential class with the specified user name, password, and domain. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetCredential(Uri, String) | Returns an instance of the NetworkCredential class for the specified Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and authentication type. |
| GetCredential(String, Int32, String) | Returns an instance of the NetworkCredential class for the specified host, port, and authentication type. |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
The NetworkCredential class is a base class that supplies credentials in password-based authentication schemes such as basic, digest, NTLM, and Kerberos. Classes that implement the ICredentials interface return NetworkCredential objects.
This class does not support public key-based authentication methods such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) client authentication.
Capabilities
If you use this API in your app, you must specify the following capabilities in the app manifest. Otherwise, your app might not work correctly or it might exit unexpectedly.
ID_CAP_NETWORKING | Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone OS 7.1 |
For more info, see App capabilities and hardware requirements for Windows Phone 8.