The latest 4Guys article was published today, and looks at implementing UsernameToken authentication using the WSE 2.0 Toolkit. In an earlier article I wrote about the Web Service Enhancements (WSE), a set of extended Web service standards defined to help businesses implement common Web service needs not addressed by the core standards (such as security and messaging). Anywho, Microsoft has been kind enough to create a free toolkit to assist developers in implementing the WSE standards. This toolkit, called the WSE 2.0 Toolkit, was officially RTMed back at TechEd this year (which I blogged about).
The main bulk of the WSE 2.0 standards address security standards. Using WSE, one can implement secure Web services using industry-defined standards. One of the security-related standards for WSE is the UsernameToken authentication standard, which spells out how a client can send along a username and password to a Web service for purposes of authentication. This latest 4Guys article - available at http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/071404-1.aspx - shows how easy it is to implement this standard using the WSE 2.0 Toolkit.
This 4Guys article is the ninth part in an ongoing series titled An Extensive Examination of Web Services...