Enabling SSL for a WCF Service

Last week a reader mailed me with some questions about my “WCF over HTTPS” blog post, which I wrote almost 3 years ago.

I created some sample code to help him enable SSL for a WCF service. Last year this was my most popular article, so I thought it would make sense to create a new up-to-date version that shows you step-by-step how to enable SSL for a WCF service with as little fuss as possible.

Let’s get started…

Table Of Contents

    Introduction
    Step 1 – The Service
    Step 2 – Configuration
    Step 3 – Hosting The Service
    Step 4 – SSL Certificate
    Step 5 – Enable SSL
    Step 6 – Consume The Service

Step 1 – The Service

First we are going to create a simple and easy-to-use WCF service. Start up Visual Studio 2010 and create a new blank solution called “SslEnabledWcfService”. Next add a new class library project to it called “CustomerService”.

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