WCF Client Server Application with Custom Authentication, Authorization, Encryption and Compression - Part 1

1. The solution uses .NET 4.0.
2. Please ignore the warnings related to the source control (TFS).
3. You may need to re-add some of the references: System.Configuration, System.ServiceModel, System.IdentityModel, System.Security, System.Runtime.Serialization, Ionic.Zip (the last is in the Common project; the others come with .NET 4).
4. The references are for the both parts of the article and for the attached code (comments with numbers).
5. You need administrative rights to start the server.
6. To use Microsoft’s implementation of zip and remove the need for Ionic.Zip.dll just change in the Common Project, Encoding.cs the “using Ionic.Zlib;” with “using System.IO.Compression;”; then you can delete the reference and the dll.
7. To avoid duplication, the code is attached only to the first part of the article.
8. If you want to test directly the server.exe and the client.exe from the attached zip, you need to unblock first server.exe.config and client.exe.config (right click, properties, unblock); otherwise you'll get a configuration error.

History
2011-03-08 Version 1.0.0 - Initial version
2011-03-17 Version 1.1.0 - Implemented the password ban list