Creating Headers (wsse) Section of WCF Client Programmatically in C#

Question

how do make a the following section of Service Settings of app.config in C# programmatically:

Answer 1

You don't have to configure header directly in this case because your scenario should be supported by BasicHttpBinding or CustomBinding directly.

If you need to configure it from C# you must create binding in code:

// Helper binding to have transport security with user name token
BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportWithMessageCredential);
binding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = BasicHttpMessageCredentialType.UserName;
// Rest of your binding configuration comes here

// Custom binding to have access to more configuration details of basic binding
CustomBinding customBinding = new CustomBinding(binding);
SecurityBindingElement element = customBinding.Elements.Find();
// Remove security timestamp because it is not used by your original binding
element.IncludeTimestamp = false;

EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress("https://...");

ProxyWebServiceClient client = new ProxyWebServiceClient(customBinding, address);
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "...";
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "...";

Other solution is building custom binding directly instead of starting with basic binding:

SecurityBindingElemetn securityElement = SecurityBindingElement.CreateUserNameOverTransportBindingElement();
securityElement.IncludeTimestamp = false; 
TextMessageEncodingBindingElement encodingElement = new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement(MessageVersion.Soap11, Encoding.UTF8);
HttpsTransportBindingElement tranportElement = new HttpsTransportBindingElement();

// Other configurations of basic binding are divided into properties of 
// encoding and transport elements

CustomBinding customBinding = new CustomBinding(securityElement, encodingElement, transportElement);

EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress("https://...");

ProxyWebServiceClient client = new ProxyWebServiceClient(customBinding, address);
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "...";
client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "...";