WCF Web Service Client using a CookieContainer

Question

I have developed a small C# form application which calls a web service. Everything works nicely but I need to keep state and to do that I need to use a CookieContainer if I am not mistaken.

I created the Service Reference by using the "Add Service Reference" menu of my project and everything worked nicely. But I do not know how to add a CookieManager on the created client.

I found some examples that were showing samples like:

serviceClient.CookieContainer=new CookieContainer()

but this is not the case. My service client does not have such a property. I am suing Visual Studio 2010 Beta by the way.

Thank you in advance!

This is the resulted ServiceReference(which was automatically created):

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// // This code was generated by a tool. // Runtime Version:4.0.30128.1 // // Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if // the code is regenerated. // //------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace WSClient.SecurityServiceReference {

[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ServiceModel.ServiceContractAttribute(Namespace="http://max/", ConfigurationName="SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService")]
public interface SecurityService {

    // CODEGEN: Generating message contract since element name return from namespace  is not marked nillable
    [System.ServiceModel.OperationContractAttribute(Action="http://max/SecurityService/nextValRequest", ReplyAction="http://max/SecurityService/nextValResponse")]
    [System.ServiceModel.TransactionFlowAttribute(System.ServiceModel.TransactionFlowOption.Allowed)]
    WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValResponse nextVal(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequest request);

    // CODEGEN: Generating message contract since element name return from namespace  is not marked nillable
    [System.ServiceModel.OperationContractAttribute(Action="http://max/SecurityService/reportSessionIDRequest", ReplyAction="http://max/SecurityService/reportSessionIDResponse")]
    [System.ServiceModel.TransactionFlowAttribute(System.ServiceModel.TransactionFlowOption.Allowed)]
    WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDResponse reportSessionID(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequest request);
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.ServiceModel.MessageContractAttribute(IsWrapped=false)]
public partial class nextValRequest {

    [System.ServiceModel.MessageBodyMemberAttribute(Name="nextVal", Namespace="http://max/", Order=0)]
    public WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequestBody Body;

    public nextValRequest() {
    }

    public nextValRequest(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequestBody Body) {
        this.Body = Body;
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute()]
public partial class nextValRequestBody {

    public nextValRequestBody() {
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.ServiceModel.MessageContractAttribute(IsWrapped=false)]
public partial class nextValResponse {

    [System.ServiceModel.MessageBodyMemberAttribute(Name="nextValResponse", Namespace="http://max/", Order=0)]
    public WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValResponseBody Body;

    public nextValResponse() {
    }

    public nextValResponse(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValResponseBody Body) {
        this.Body = Body;
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute(Namespace="")]
public partial class nextValResponseBody {

    [System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute(EmitDefaultValue=false, Order=0)]
    public string @return;

    public nextValResponseBody() {
    }

    public nextValResponseBody(string @return) {
        this.@return = @return;
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.ServiceModel.MessageContractAttribute(IsWrapped=false)]
public partial class reportSessionIDRequest {

    [System.ServiceModel.MessageBodyMemberAttribute(Name="reportSessionID", Namespace="http://max/", Order=0)]
    public WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequestBody Body;

    public reportSessionIDRequest() {
    }

    public reportSessionIDRequest(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequestBody Body) {
        this.Body = Body;
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute()]
public partial class reportSessionIDRequestBody {

    public reportSessionIDRequestBody() {
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.ServiceModel.MessageContractAttribute(IsWrapped=false)]
public partial class reportSessionIDResponse {

    [System.ServiceModel.MessageBodyMemberAttribute(Name="reportSessionIDResponse", Namespace="http://max/", Order=0)]
    public WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDResponseBody Body;

    public reportSessionIDResponse() {
    }

    public reportSessionIDResponse(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDResponseBody Body) {
        this.Body = Body;
    }
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
[System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
[System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute(Namespace="")]
public partial class reportSessionIDResponseBody {

    [System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute(EmitDefaultValue=false, Order=0)]
    public string @return;

    public reportSessionIDResponseBody() {
    }

    public reportSessionIDResponseBody(string @return) {
        this.@return = @return;
    }
}

[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
public interface SecurityServiceChannel : WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService, System.ServiceModel.IClientChannel {
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.ServiceModel", "4.0.0.0")]
public partial class SecurityServiceClient : System.ServiceModel.ClientBase<WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService>, WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService {

    public SecurityServiceClient() {
    }

    public SecurityServiceClient(string endpointConfigurationName) : 
            base(endpointConfigurationName) {
    }

    public SecurityServiceClient(string endpointConfigurationName, string remoteAddress) : 
            base(endpointConfigurationName, remoteAddress) {
    }

    public SecurityServiceClient(string endpointConfigurationName, System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress remoteAddress) : 
            base(endpointConfigurationName, remoteAddress) {
    }

    public SecurityServiceClient(System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding binding, System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress remoteAddress) : 
            base(binding, remoteAddress) {
    }

    [System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
    WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValResponse WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService.nextVal(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequest request) {
        return base.Channel.nextVal(request);
    }

    public string nextVal() {
        WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequest inValue = new WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequest();
        inValue.Body = new WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValRequestBody();
        WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.nextValResponse retVal = ((WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService)(this)).nextVal(inValue);
        return retVal.Body.@return;
    }

    [System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableAttribute(System.ComponentModel.EditorBrowsableState.Advanced)]
    WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDResponse WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService.reportSessionID(WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequest request) {
        return base.Channel.reportSessionID(request);
    }

    public string reportSessionID() {
        WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequest inValue = new WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequest();
        inValue.Body = new WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDRequestBody();
        WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.reportSessionIDResponse retVal = ((WSClient.SecurityServiceReference.SecurityService)(this)).reportSessionID(inValue);
        return retVal.Body.@return;
    }
}

}

Answer 1

Why revert to old technology, when you can just enable cookies on the binding?

http://megakemp.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/managing-shared-cookies-in-wcf/