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ICredentials Interface

Definition

Provides the base authentication interface for retrieving credentials for Web client authentication.

C#
public interface ICredentials
Derived

Examples

The following example illustrates how to use the ICredentials interface.

C#
class CredentialList : ICredentials
{
    class CredentialInfo
    {
        public Uri uriObj;
        public String authenticationType;
        public NetworkCredential networkCredentialObj;

        public CredentialInfo(Uri uriObj, String authenticationType, NetworkCredential networkCredentialObj)
        {
            this.uriObj = uriObj;
            this.authenticationType = authenticationType;
            this.networkCredentialObj = networkCredentialObj;
        }
    }

    private ArrayList arrayListObj;

    public CredentialList()
    {
        arrayListObj = new ArrayList();
    }

    public void Add (Uri uriObj, String authenticationType, NetworkCredential credential)
    {
        // Add a 'CredentialInfo' object into a list.
        arrayListObj.Add (new CredentialInfo(uriObj, authenticationType, credential));
    }
    // Remove the 'CredentialInfo' object from the list that matches to the given 'Uri' and 'AuthenticationType'
    public void Remove (Uri uriObj, String authenticationType)
    {
        for(int index=0;index < arrayListObj.Count; index++)
        {
            CredentialInfo credentialInfo = (CredentialInfo)arrayListObj[index];
            if(uriObj.Equals(credentialInfo.uriObj)&& authenticationType.Equals(credentialInfo.authenticationType))
                arrayListObj.RemoveAt(index);
        }
    }
    public NetworkCredential GetCredential (Uri uriObj, String authenticationType)
    {
        for(int index=0;index < arrayListObj.Count; index++)
        {
            CredentialInfo credentialInfoObj = (CredentialInfo)arrayListObj[index];
            if(uriObj.Equals(credentialInfoObj.uriObj) && authenticationType.Equals(credentialInfoObj.authenticationType))
                return credentialInfoObj.networkCredentialObj;
        }
        return null;
    }
};

Remarks

The ICredentials interface provides the GetCredential method to objects that supply network credentials to applications.

Methods

GetCredential(Uri, String)

Returns a NetworkCredential object that is associated with the specified URI, and authentication type.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0