Hi Mark,

How are you doing?

Have you got any progress on this WCF migration issue or does the
information in previous message help you some?
We're still monitoring the thread and if there is anything else we can
help, please don't hesitate to post here.

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From: stcheng@online.microsoft.com (Steven Cheng [MSFT])
Organization: Microsoft
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:29:49 GMT
Subject: RE: Migrating to WCF

Hi Mark,

From your description, you've an old application develped with winform +
WSE 3.0, and now want to migrate it to WCF + .NET 3.5 with VS 2008, correct?

Based on my research, regardless of the VS 2008 IDE support, since .NET
3.0, .NET 3.5 framework is still based on .NET 2.0, your WSE 3.0
application can still run correctly upon the new framework.  

If you want to upgrade the project/code and  use WCF, I think you will need
to change the configuration (such as those for X509 security) since WCF's
configration schema is different from WSE.  However, don't worry that you
will need much change since WCF is also a quite configuration friendly
system which provide simple and complete support for configuring security
and other other service properties declaratively.

x509 certificate based security is included in the Message layer security
in WCF, here are some reference about using x509 message security

#Message Security in WCF
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733137.aspx

#How to: Secure a Service with an X.509 Certificate
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788968.aspx

#WCF security: How to configure message security with x509 authentication
http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2006/09/24/931.aspx

In addition, there is also some tips about migrating WSE 3.0 app to WCF
which might also be help ful:

#Migrating WSE 3.0 Web Services to WCF
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms732008.aspx

You can also find some samples of WCF security from either the .NET 3.0 sdk
samples or the WCF resource site:

#Windows SDK .NET Framework 3.0 Samples
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22B58B6C-8F98-40D0-
880D-C3339C5DA01E&displaylang=en

http://netfx3.com/files/76/default.aspx

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From: "Mark Baldwin" <sWozzi3@community.nospam>
Subject: Migrating to WCF
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:07:17 +0100

We have an windows forms app with SQL Server backend and middle tier using
asmx webservices. The web service is secured using x509 certificates.

We need to start migrating this app to .NET 3.5 with the aim of using WF,
WCF and eventually WPF. The first thing is to move to VS2008 but it seems
that ws-Security using x509 isn't supported!

Is there an easy migration path to simply convert our asmx to WCF using the
existing security system so we have minimal impact on the customer base.
Preferrably we would want to keep the existing certificates.

Any help much appreciated...