NetworkCredential Class

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Provides credentials for password-based authentication schemes such as basic, digest, NTLM, and Kerberos authentication.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System. . :: . .Object
  System.Net..::..NetworkCredential

Namespace:  System.Net
Assembly:  System.Http (in System.Http.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class NetworkCredential

public class NetworkCredential

public ref class NetworkCredential

type NetworkCredential =  class end

public class NetworkCredential

The NetworkCredential type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	NetworkCredential() () () ()	Initializes a new instance of the NetworkCredential class.
	NetworkCredential(String, String)	Initializes a new instance of the NetworkCredential class with the specified user name and password.
	NetworkCredential(String, String, AuthenticationType)	Initializes a new instance of the NetworkCredential class, with the specified user name, password, and authentication type.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	AuthenticationType	Gets or sets the type of the authentication.
	Password	Gets or sets the password for the user name associated with the credentials.
	UserName	Gets or sets the user name associated with the credentials.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

The NetworkCredential class is a base class that supplies credentials in password-based authentication schemes such as basic, digest, NTLM, and Kerberos. Classes that implement the ICredentials interface, such as the CredentialCache class, return NetworkCredential objects.

This class does not support public key-based authentication methods such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) client authentication.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

System.Net Namespace