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I'm using the WCFTestClient to debug a service. This normally works like a charm. This particular service is using SSL and I need to pass the user name and password. I can right click and edit the config file, but I do not see a place where I can inject the user name and password. On the normal client app for this service, we programatically set the credentials, how do I do this using the tools WCFTEstClient or ServiceConfigurationEditor. Anyone out there know how to do this? Here's how I do it in code.

_client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["name"];
_client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["pass"];

Thanks for any help.
~ck in San Diego

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I don't think you can do that with the WCF Test Client. It's a fairly limited and simplistic tool - works great in simple scenarios, but stops fairly quickly.

If you need more features and abilities, you might want to look at SoapUI which is a SOAP/web services testing tool and works quite well - the normal edition is free, too!

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Just a comment for those using SoapUI so you don't have to look this up elsewhere - to pass credentials like the example given in the OP, you would set the WSS-PasswordType = PasswordText and then set the username and password all in the request properties window. –  Jim Nov 13 '13 at 19:12
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