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Downloading file from MS teams programatically

Previously, I developed an application which downloaded a file from a corporate Sharepoint site and then performed some magic with it.
The powers that be have since migrated to MS Teams and I'm trying to update the application to use the new platform. However, I'm having all sorts of issues getting the file to download.
My old (working for Sharepoint) code uses a WebClient to retrieve the file based on credentials previously provided by the user:
private string GetSchedule(string username, string password, string domain)
{
string tempPath = Path.GetTempFileName().Replace(".tmp", ".xlsm");
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password, domain);
try
{
client.DownloadFile(_networkSchedulePath, tempPath);
}
catch (WebException e)
{
if (e.Message.Contains("401"))
{
StatusUpdated?.Invoke(this, new EventArgs<string>("Invalid Credentials Provided"));
Finished?.Invoke(this, null);
return null;
}
if (e.Message.Contains("404"))
{
StatusUpdated?.Invoke(this, new EventArgs<string>("File Not Found"));
Finished?.Invoke(this, null);
return null;
}
else
{
StatusUpdated?.Invoke(this, new EventArgs<string>(e.Message));
Finished?.Invoke(this, null);
return null;
}
}
}
return tempPath;
}
However, when I use this with the new teams link I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error. So is there any way to programmatically retrieve a file from MS Teams?

I was mistaken in the comments. Simply replacing the NetworkCredentials with SharePointOnlineCredentials is not the solution.
I'm not sure if the following is the "right" approach, but it works and seems pretty solid. Please give it a try:
private static string GetFile(string path, string username, string password, string domain)
{
var secureString = new SecureString();
foreach (var ch in password)
{
secureString.AppendChar(ch);
}
string tempPath = Path.GetTempFileName().Replace(".tmp", ".xlsm");
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
var credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(username, secureString);
client.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.Cookie] = credentials.GetAuthenticationCookie(new Uri(path));
try
{
client.DownloadFile(path, tempPath);
}
catch (WebException e)
{
// Error Handling
}
}
return tempPath;
}
Another option is to use the CSOM rather than using a webclient directly. n.b., I encountered errors at the OpenBinaryDirect() call when using the Microsoft.SharePoint.Client NuGet package and it looks like this package is wildly out of date. It appears that the one to use now is Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM or Microsoft.SharePoint2019.CSOM:
private static string GetFileWithClientContext(string path, string username, string password, string domain)
{
var secureString = new SecureString();
foreach (var ch in password)
{
secureString.AppendChar(ch);
}
string tempPath = Path.GetTempFileName().Replace(".tmp", Path.GetExtension(path));
using (var context = new ClientContext(path))
{
context.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(username, secureString);
try
{
using (var file = Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.File.OpenBinaryDirect(context, new Uri(path).AbsolutePath))
using (var outFile = System.IO.File.OpenWrite(tempPath))
{
file.Stream.CopyTo(outFile);
}
}
catch (WebException e)
{
// Error Handling
}
}
return tempPath;
}

Thanks to JLRishe for the help his answer and comments provided. However, the final solution varied from the one in his answer, which is why I'm posting it here:
The OfficeDevPnP.Core package is used extensively for this.
Firstly, the AuthenticationManager is used to get a ClientContext in terms of the specific sharepoint site that needs to be accessed. This pops a window up to allow for the MFA. Then various components are loaded in via the ClientContext object. From here, the file is fetched via Guid and dumped to disk.
private string GetSchedule()
{
string tempPath = Path.GetTempFileName().Replace(".tmp", ".xlsm");
try
{
AuthenticationManager authManager = new OfficeDevPnP.Core.AuthenticationManager();
ClientContext ctx = authManager.GetWebLoginClientContext("https://oursite.sharepoint.com/sites/ourspecificsite/");
Web web = ctx.Web;
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.File schedule = web.GetFileById(new Guid("ourguid"));
ctx.Load(web);
ctx.Load(schedule);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
FileInformation fInfo = Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.File.OpenBinaryDirect(ctx, schedule.ServerRelativeUrl);
using (var fileStream = File.Create(tempPath))
{
fInfo.Stream.CopyTo(fileStream);
}
}
catch (WebException e)
{
StatusUpdated?.Invoke(this, new EventArgs<string>(e.Message));
return null;
}
return tempPath;
}

using Microsoft.Graph;
using Microsoft.Graph.Auth;
using Microsoft.Identity.Client;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
namespace Answer
{
class Answer
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create Confidential Application
IConfidentialClientApplication confidentialClientApplication = ConfidentialClientApplicationBuilder
.Create("<My_Azure_Application_Client_ID>")
.WithTenantId("<My_Azure_Tenant_ID>")
.WithClientSecret("<My_Azure_Application_Client_Secret>")
.Build();
// Create an authentication provider.
ClientCredentialProvider authenticationProvider = new ClientCredentialProvider(confidentialClientApplication);
// Configure GraphServiceClient with provider.
GraphServiceClient graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient(authenticationProvider);
// Get a user
var user = graphServiceClient.Users["<My_Azure_User_Name>"].Request().GetAsync().Result;
// Get the teams the user is member of
var joinedTeams = graphServiceClient.Users[user.Id].JoinedTeams.Request().GetAsync().Result;
// Get the team we are intereseted in
var team1 = joinedTeams.FirstOrDefault(t => t.DisplayName == "<TeamName_Of_Interest>");
// Get the main folders
var folders = graphServiceClient.Groups[team1.Id].Drive.Root.Children
.Request()
.GetAsync().Result;
// Get the files in the first main folder
var files = graphServiceClient.Groups[team1.Id].Drive.Items[folders[0].Id].Children
.Request()
.GetAsync().Result;
// Get the file-Data of the first file
MemoryStream fileData = graphServiceClient.Groups[team1.Id].Drive.Items[files[0].Id].Content
.Request()
.GetAsync().Result as MemoryStream;
// Save the file to the hard-disc
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes($"C:\\{files[0].Name}", fileData.ToArray());
}
}
}

AmazonSQSClient not refreshing AWSCredentials when Credentials File is updated

When my AWS Credentials File (see docs) is updated by an external process the AmazonSQSClient doesn't re-read it, SendMessageAsync fails with a security/token error.
We use a custom powershell script to refresh the local AWS cred's file periodically. The script works fine, the file is refreshed prior to the credentials expiring on AWS. However, if my app is running when the file is refreshed the new credentials are not re-read from the file, the "client" will show that the previous credentials are still in use.
The AWS docs list several AWSCredential providers but none of them seem to be the correct choice...I think..
Restarting the app works, the new credentials are read correctly and messages are sent until the next time the cred's file is updated.
using (var client = new AmazonSQSClient(Amazon.RegionEndpoint.EUWest1))
{
return client.SendMessageAsync(request);
}

I don't think there is a way for a running app to pick up the default credentials being refreshed in credentials file. There is a solution for Node.js loading credentials from a JSON file. You can create a similar solution in C#. You can also run a local DB to store credentials so whenever credentials file is updated DB table or JSON file is also updated. You will need to use access key and secret key in your SQS client constructor as opposed to using default credentials.
// Load these from JSON file or DB.
var accessKey = "";
var secretKey = "";
using (var client = new AmazonSQSClient(accessKey, secretKey, Amazon.RegionEndpoint.EUWest1))
{
return client.SendMessageAsync(request);
}

The following works "ok" but I've only tested it with one profile and the file watcher is not as timely as you'd like so I'd recommend you wrap your usage inside a Retry mechanism.
// Usage..
var credentials = new AwsCredentialsFile();
using (var client = new AmazonSQSClient(credentials, Amazon.RegionEndpoint.EUWest1))
{
return client.SendMessageAsync(request);
}
public class AwsCredentialsFile : AWSCredentials
{
// https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-net/v2/developer-guide/net-dg-config-creds.html#creds-file
private const string DefaultProfileName = "default";
private static ConcurrentDictionary<string, ImmutableCredentials> _credentials = new ConcurrentDictionary<string, ImmutableCredentials>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
private static FileSystemWatcher _watcher = BuildFileSystemWatcher();
private readonly System.Text.Encoding _encoding;
private readonly string _profileName;
public AwsCredentialsFile()
: this(AwsCredentialsFile.DefaultProfileName, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
{
}
public AwsCredentialsFile(string profileName)
: this(profileName, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
{
}
public AwsCredentialsFile(string profileName, System.Text.Encoding encoding)
{
_profileName = profileName;
_encoding = encoding;
}
private static FileSystemWatcher BuildFileSystemWatcher()
{
var watcher = new FileSystemWatcher
{
Path = Path.GetDirectoryName(GetDefaultCredentialsFilePath()),
NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.LastWrite,
Filter = "credentials"
};
watcher.Changed += (object source, FileSystemEventArgs e) => { _credentials?.Clear(); };
watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
return watcher;
}
public static string GetDefaultCredentialsFilePath()
{
return System.Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(#"C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.aws\credentials");
}
public static (string AccessKey, string SecretAccessKey, string Token) ReadCredentialsFromFile(string profileName, System.Text.Encoding encoding)
{
var profile = $"[{profileName}]";
string awsAccessKeyId = null;
string awsSecretAccessKey = null;
string token = null;
var lines = File.ReadAllLines(GetDefaultCredentialsFilePath(), encoding);
for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
{
var text = lines[i];
if (text.Equals(profile, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
awsAccessKeyId = lines[i + 1].Replace("aws_access_key_id = ", string.Empty);
awsSecretAccessKey = lines[i + 2].Replace("aws_secret_access_key = ", string.Empty);
if (lines.Length >= i + 3)
{
token = lines[i + 3].Replace("aws_session_token = ", string.Empty);
}
break;
}
}
var result = (AccessKey: awsAccessKeyId, SecretAccessKey: awsSecretAccessKey, Token: token);
return result;
}
public override ImmutableCredentials GetCredentials()
{
if (_credentials.TryGetValue(_profileName, out ImmutableCredentials value))
{
return value;
}
else
{
var (AccessKey, SecretAccessKey, Token) = ReadCredentialsFromFile(_profileName, _encoding);
var credentials = new ImmutableCredentials(AccessKey, SecretAccessKey, Token);
_credentials.TryAdd(_profileName, credentials);
return credentials;
}
}
}

NetSuite C# Console App Web Services Token Authentication Returning "Ambiguous Authentication"

I'm trying to get my integrations updated to handle this forced use of token authentication for NetSuite web services. However, I'm stuck getting the following:
[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException] Ambiguous authentication
I've tried various things with no improvement. Doesn't seem to matter if I use a token created beforehand, or have one generated. I'm not creating a "Cookie Container", or adding a standard Passport object. I've tried a few different methods for generating a signature and a nonce value. I've even switched between SHA1 and SHA256 thinking that might make a difference. I'm going to include my code here. Hopefully someone can see what I'm doing wrong.
FYI, there are some components in here from trying what I found in this post: Ambiguous Authentication in Netsuite Token Based API call
static void Main(string[] args) {
NameValueCollection _dataCollection = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings;
NSCreds crd = new NSCreds(_dataCollection); /// just building a data object to handle credentials and keys
NSWS ns = new NSWS(crd, _dataCollection["appId"]); // token passport gets built here
// now to make a call to just get a single file from the File Cabinet
RecordRef pullFile = new RecordRef();
pullFile.type = RecordType.file;
pullFile.typeSpecified = true;
pullFile.internalId = _dataCollection["fileId"];
ReadResponse rres = ns.service.get(pullFile); // this line throws the error highlighted above
}
public NSWS(NSCreds c, String appId) {
CheckConnectionSecurity(); // makes sure connection security is set to TLS 1.2
_pageSize = 100;
service = new NetSuiteService();
service.Timeout = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 2;
service.tokenPassport = prepareTokenPassport(c);
ApplicationInfo appInfo = new ApplicationInfo();
appInfo.applicationId = appId;
service.applicationInfo = appInfo;
}
public TokenPassport prepareTokenPassport(NSCreds c) {
long TimeStamp = ComputeTimestamp();
String nonce = CreateNonce_1();
NSToken token = null;
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(c.tokenId) && String.IsNullOrEmpty(c.tokenSecret)) {
token = GetToken(c.customerKey, c); // make calls to NetSuite to generate token data and build custom object
} else {
token = new NSToken(c.tokenId,c.tokenSecret); // build custom object from apps settings data
}
String signature = ComputeSignature(c.account, c.customerKey, c.customerSecret, token.tokenId, token.tokenSecret, nonce, TimeStamp);
TokenPassport tokenPassport = new TokenPassport();
tokenPassport.account = c.account;
tokenPassport.consumerKey = c.customerKey;
tokenPassport.token = token.tokenId;
tokenPassport.nonce = nonce;
tokenPassport.timestamp = TimeStamp;
TokenPassportSignature signatureElement = new TokenPassportSignature();
signatureElement.algorithm = "HMAC-SHA1"; // "HMAC-SHA256";
signatureElement.Value = signature;
tokenPassport.signature = signatureElement;
return tokenPassport;
}
private static long ComputeTimestamp() {
return ((long)(DateTime.UtcNow.Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1))).TotalSeconds);
}
private String CreateNonce_1() {
int length = 20;
String AllowedChars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
StringBuilder nonce = new StringBuilder();
RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] rnd = new byte[1];
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
while (true) {
rng.GetBytes(rnd);
char c = (char)rnd[0];
if (AllowedChars.IndexOf(c) != (-1)) {
nonce.Append(rnd[0]);
break;
}
}
}
return nonce.ToString();
}
private static string CreateNonce_2() {
return Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
}
private String CreateNonce_3() {
RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] data = new byte[20];
rng.GetBytes(data);
int value = Math.Abs(BitConverter.ToInt32(data, 0));
return value.ToString();
}
private string ComputeSignature(String account, String cKey, String cSecret, String token, String tokenSecret, String nonce, long timeStamp) {
String baseString = String.Format("{0}&{1}&{2}&{3}&{4}",account,cKey,token,nonce,timeStamp);
String key = String.Format("{0}&{1}", cSecret, tokenSecret);
// previous method for encoding the signature
// Mac is a custom object found from another post here
// EncryptionMethods is an enumeration from that same post
/*
//using (var secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(GetBytes(key), EncryptionMethods.HMACSHA256))
using (var secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(GetBytes(key), EncryptionMethods.HMACSHA1))
using (Mac mac = new Mac(secretKey, baseString)) {
return mac.AsBase64();
}
*/
//HMACSHA256 hashObject = new HMACSHA256(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key));
HMACSHA1 hashObject = new HMACSHA1(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key));
byte[] signature = hashObject.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(baseString));
string encodedSignature = Convert.ToBase64String(signature);
return encodedSignature;
}

It turns out that the problem was setting the Application ID while also specifying a Token Passport. Doing so actually creates a conflict with the system not knowing which to use for authentication, since the token itself references the Application ID internally. So, removed the bit where the Application ID was being set to the service object and everything started working correctly.

Try to use this code for token based authentication
TokenPassport tokenPassport = new TokenPassport();
tokenPassport.account = account; //Account ID
tokenPassport.consumerKey = consumerKey; //Consumer Key
tokenPassport.token = tokenId; // Token ID
tokenPassport.nonce = nonce; //It is some calculated value with the help of RNGCryptoServiceProvider class.
tokenPassport.timestamp = timestamp;
tokenPassport.signature = signature; // It is TokenPassportSignature
TokenPassportSignature also uses Account ID, Token ID & Token Secret. It has some algorithms.

Uploading objects to google cloud storage buckets in c#

Can someone please provide an example of how to use Google.Apis.Storage.v1 for uploading files to google cloud storage in c#?

I found that this basic operation is not as straight forward as you might expect. Google's documentation about it's Storage API is lacking in information about using it in C# (or any other .NET language). Searching for 'how to upload file to google cloud storage in c#' didn't exactly help me, so here is my working solution with some comments:
Preparation:
You need to create OAuth2 account in your Google Developers Console - go to Project/APIs & auth/Credentials.
Copy Client ID & Client Secret to your code. You will also need your Project name.
Code (it assumes that you've added Google.Apis.Storage.v1 via NuGet):
First, you need to authorize your requests:
var clientSecrets = new ClientSecrets();
clientSecrets.ClientId = clientId;
clientSecrets.ClientSecret = clientSecret;
//there are different scopes, which you can find here https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/authentication
var scopes = new[] {#"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.full_control"};
var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
var userCredential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(clientSecrets,scopes, "yourGoogle#email", cts.Token);
Sometimes you might also want to refresh authorization token via:
await userCredential.RefreshTokenAsync(cts.Token);
You also need to create Storage Service:
var service = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.StorageService();
Now you can make requests to Google Storage API.
Let's start with creating a new bucket:
var newBucket = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data.Bucket()
{
Name = "your-bucket-name-1"
};
var newBucketQuery = service.Buckets.Insert(newBucket, projectName);
newBucketQuery.OauthToken = userCredential.Result.Token.AccessToken;
//you probably want to wrap this into try..catch block
newBucketQuery.Execute();
And it's done. Now, you can send a request to get list of all of your buckets:
var bucketsQuery = service.Buckets.List(projectName);
bucketsQuery.OauthToken = userCredential.Result.Token.AccessToken;
var buckets = bucketsQuery.Execute();
Last part is uploading new file:
//enter bucket name to which you want to upload file
var bucketToUpload = buckets.Items.FirstOrDefault().Name;
var newObject = new Object()
{
Bucket = bucketToUpload,
Name = "some-file-"+new Random().Next(1,666)
};
FileStream fileStream = null;
try
{
var dir = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
var path = Path.Combine(dir, "test.png");
fileStream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);
var uploadRequest = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.ObjectsResource.InsertMediaUpload(service, newObject,
bucketToUpload,fileStream,"image/png");
uploadRequest.OauthToken = userCredential.Result.Token.AccessToken;
await uploadRequest.UploadAsync();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
finally
{
if (fileStream != null)
{
fileStream.Dispose();
}
}
And bam! New file will be visible in you Google Developers Console inside of selected bucket.

You can use Google Cloud APIs without SDK in the following ways:
Required api-key.json file
Install package Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2 in order to authorize the
HTTP web request
You can set the default configuration for your application in this
way
I did the same using .NET core web API and details are given below:
Url details:
"GoogleCloudStorageBaseUrl": "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/storage/v1/b/",
"GoogleSpeechBaseUrl": "https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/operations/",
"GoogleLongRunningRecognizeBaseUrl": "https://speech.googleapis.com/v1/speech:longrunningrecognize",
"GoogleCloudScope": "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform",
public void GetConfiguration()
{
// Set global configuration
bucketName = _configuration.GetValue<string>("BucketName");
googleCloudStorageBaseUrl = _configuration.GetValue<string>("GoogleCloudStorageBaseUrl");
googleSpeechBaseUrl = _configuration.GetValue<string>("GoogleSpeechBaseUrl");
googleLongRunningRecognizeBaseUrl = _configuration.GetValue<string>("GoogleLongRunningRecognizeBaseUrl");
// Set google cloud credentials
string googleApplicationCredentialsPath = _configuration.GetValue<string>("GoogleCloudCredentialPath");
using (Stream stream = new FileStream(googleApplicationCredentialsPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
googleCredential = GoogleCredential.FromStream(stream).CreateScoped(_configuration.GetValue<string>("GoogleCloudScope"));
}
Get Oauth token:
public string GetOAuthToken()
{
return googleCredential.UnderlyingCredential.GetAccessTokenForRequestAsync("https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth", CancellationToken.None).Result;
}
To upload file to cloud bucket:
public async Task<string> UploadMediaToCloud(string filePath, string objectName = null)
{
string bearerToken = GetOAuthToken();
byte[] fileBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(filePath);
objectName = objectName ?? Path.GetFileName(filePath);
var baseUrl = new Uri(string.Format(googleCloudStorageBaseUrl + "" + bucketName + "/o?uploadType=media&name=" + objectName + ""));
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Authorization, "Bearer " + bearerToken);
client.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.ContentType, "application/octet-stream");
byte[] response = await Task.Run(() => client.UploadData(baseUrl, "POST", fileBytes));
string responseInString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(response);
return responseInString;
}
}
In order to perform any action to the cloud API, just need to make a HttpClient get/post request as per the requirement.
Thanks

This is for Google.Cloud.Storage.V1 (not Google.Apis.Storage.v1), but appears to be a bit simpler to perform an upload now. I started with the Client libraries "Getting Started" instructions to create a service account and bucket, then experimented to find out how to upload an image.
The process I followed was:
Sign up for Google Cloud free trial
Create a new project in Google Cloud (remember the project name\ID for later)
Create a Project Owner service account - this will result in a json file being downloaded that contains the service account credentials. Remember where you put that file.
The getting started docs get you to add the path to the JSON credentials file into an environment variable called GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS - I couldn't get this to work through the provided instructions. Turns out it is not required, as you can just read the JSON file into a string and pass it to the client constructor.
I created an empty WPF project as a starting point, and a single ViewModel to house the application logic.
Install the Google.Cloud.Storage.V1 nuget package and it should pull in all the dependencies it needs.
Onto the code.
MainWindow.xaml
<StackPanel>
<Button
Margin="50"
Height="50"
Content="BEGIN UPLOAD"
Click="OnButtonClick" />
<ContentControl
Content="{Binding Path=ProgressBar}" />
</StackPanel>
MainWindow.xaml.cs
public partial class MainWindow
{
readonly ViewModel _viewModel;
public MainWindow()
{
_viewModel = new ViewModel(Dispatcher);
DataContext = _viewModel;
InitializeComponent();
}
void OnButtonClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs args)
{
_viewModel.UploadAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
}
}
ViewModel.cs
public class ViewModel
{
readonly Dispatcher _dispatcher;
public ViewModel(Dispatcher dispatcher)
{
_dispatcher = dispatcher;
ProgressBar = new ProgressBar {Height=30};
}
public async Task UploadAsync()
{
// Google Cloud Platform project ID.
const string projectId = "project-id-goes-here";
// The name for the new bucket.
const string bucketName = projectId + "-test-bucket";
// Path to the file to upload
const string filePath = #"C:\path\to\image.jpg";
var newObject = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data.Object
{
Bucket = bucketName,
Name = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(filePath),
ContentType = "image/jpeg"
};
// read the JSON credential file saved when you created the service account
var credential = Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.GoogleCredential.FromJson(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(
#"c:\path\to\service-account-credentials.json"));
// Instantiates a client.
using (var storageClient = Google.Cloud.Storage.V1.StorageClient.Create(credential))
{
try
{
// Creates the new bucket. Only required the first time.
// You can also create buckets through the GCP cloud console web interface
storageClient.CreateBucket(projectId, bucketName);
System.Windows.MessageBox.Show($"Bucket {bucketName} created.");
// Open the image file filestream
using (var fileStream = new System.IO.FileStream(filePath, System.IO.FileMode.Open))
{
ProgressBar.Maximum = fileStream.Length;
// set minimum chunksize just to see progress updating
var uploadObjectOptions = new Google.Cloud.Storage.V1.UploadObjectOptions
{
ChunkSize = Google.Cloud.Storage.V1.UploadObjectOptions.MinimumChunkSize
};
// Hook up the progress callback
var progressReporter = new Progress<Google.Apis.Upload.IUploadProgress>(OnUploadProgress);
await storageClient.UploadObjectAsync(
newObject,
fileStream,
uploadObjectOptions,
progress: progressReporter)
.ConfigureAwait(false);
}
}
catch (Google.GoogleApiException e)
when (e.Error.Code == 409)
{
// When creating the bucket - The bucket already exists. That's fine.
System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(e.Error.Message);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// other exception
System.Windows.MessageBox.Show(e.Message);
}
}
}
// Called when progress updates
void OnUploadProgress(Google.Apis.Upload.IUploadProgress progress)
{
switch (progress.Status)
{
case Google.Apis.Upload.UploadStatus.Starting:
ProgressBar.Minimum = 0;
ProgressBar.Value = 0;
break;
case Google.Apis.Upload.UploadStatus.Completed:
ProgressBar.Value = ProgressBar.Maximum;
System.Windows.MessageBox.Show("Upload completed");
break;
case Google.Apis.Upload.UploadStatus.Uploading:
UpdateProgressBar(progress.BytesSent);
break;
case Google.Apis.Upload.UploadStatus.Failed:
System.Windows.MessageBox.Show("Upload failed"
+ Environment.NewLine
+ progress.Exception);
break;
}
}
void UpdateProgressBar(long value)
{
_dispatcher.Invoke(() => { ProgressBar.Value = value; });
}
// probably better to expose progress value directly and bind to
// a ProgressBar in the XAML
public ProgressBar ProgressBar { get; }
}

Use of Google.Apis.Storage.v1 for uploading files using SDK to google cloud storage in c#:
Required api-key.json file
Install the package Google.Cloud.Storage.V1; and Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
The code is given below to upload the file to the cloud
private string UploadFile(string localPath, string objectName = null)
{
string projectId = ((Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2.ServiceAccountCredential)googleCredential.UnderlyingCredential).ProjectId;
try
{
// Creates the new bucket.
var objResult = storageClient.CreateBucket(projectId, bucketName);
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(objResult.Id))
{
// Upload file to google cloud server
using (var f = File.OpenRead(localPath))
{
objectName = objectName ?? Path.GetFileName(localPath);
var objFileUploadStatus1 = storageClient.UploadObject(bucketName, objectName, null, f);
}
}
}
catch (Google.GoogleApiException ex)
{
// Error code =409, means bucket already created/exist then upload file in the bucket
if (ex.Error.Code == 409)
{
// Upload file to google cloud server
using (var f = File.OpenRead(localPath))
{
objectName = objectName ?? Path.GetFileName(localPath);
var objFileUploadStatus2 = storageClient.UploadObject(bucketName, objectName, null, f);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
}
return objectName;
}
To set the credentials
private bool SetStorageCredentials()
{
bool status = true;
try
{
if (File.Exists(credential_path))
{
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", credential_path);
using (Stream objStream = new FileStream(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
googleCredential = GoogleCredential.FromStream(objStream);
// Instantiates a client.
storageClient = StorageClient.Create();
channel = new Grpc.Core.Channel(SpeechClient.DefaultEndpoint.Host, googleCredential.ToChannelCredentials());
}
else
{
DialogResult result = MessageBox.Show("File " + Path.GetFileName(credential_path) + " does not exist. Please provide the correct path.");
if (result == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK)
{
status = false;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
status = false;
}
return status;
}
I used SDK in one of my window application. You can use the same code according to your needs/requirements.

You'll be happy to know it still works in 2016...
I was googling all over using fancy key words like "google gcp C# upload image", until I just plain asked the question: "How do I upload an image to google bucket using C#"... and here I am. I removed the .Result in the user credential, and this was the final edit that worked for me.
// ******
static string bucketForImage = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["testStorageName"];
static string projectName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GCPProjectName"];
string gcpPath = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/Images/Gallery/"), uniqueGcpName + ext);
var clientSecrets = new ClientSecrets();
clientSecrets.ClientId = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GCPClientID"];
clientSecrets.ClientSecret = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GCPClientSc"];
var scopes = new[] { #"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.full_control" };
var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
var userCredential = await GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(clientSecrets, scopes, ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GCPAccountEmail"], cts.Token);
var service = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.StorageService();
var bucketToUpload = bucketForImage;
var newObject = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.Data.Object()
{
Bucket = bucketToUpload,
Name = bkFileName
};
FileStream fileStream = null;
try
{
fileStream = new FileStream(gcpPath, FileMode.Open);
var uploadRequest = new Google.Apis.Storage.v1.ObjectsResource.InsertMediaUpload(service, newObject,
bucketToUpload, fileStream, "image/"+ ext);
uploadRequest.OauthToken = userCredential.Token.AccessToken;
await uploadRequest.UploadAsync();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
finally
{
if (fileStream != null)
{
fileStream.Dispose();
}
}
// ******

Here is the link to their official C# example of ".NET Bookshelf App" using Google Cloud storage.
https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/getting-started/using-cloud-storage
Source on github:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/getting-started-dotnet/blob/master/aspnet/3-binary-data/Services/ImageUploader.cs
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/getting-started-dotnet/tree/master/aspnet/3-binary-data
Nuget
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Google.Cloud.Storage.V1/

Here are 2 examples that helped me to upload files to a bucket in Google Cloud Storage with Google.Cloud.Storage.V1 (not Google.Apis.Storage.v1):
Upload files to Google cloud storage using c#
Uploading .csv Files to Google Cloud Storage using C# .Net
I got both working on a C# Console Application just for testing purposes.

#February 2021
string _projectId = "YOUR-PROJECT-ID-GCP"; //ProjectID also present in the json file
GoogleCredential _credential = GoogleCredential.FromFile("credential-cloud-file-123418c9e06c.json");
/// <summary>
/// UploadFile to GCS Bucket
/// </summary>
/// <param name="bucketName"></param>
/// <param name="localPath">my-local-path/my-file-name</param>
/// <param name="objectName">my-file-name</param>
public void UploadFile(string bucketName, string localPath, string objectName)
{
var storage = StorageClient.Create(_credential);
using var fileStream = File.OpenRead(localPath);
storage.UploadObject(bucketName, objectName, null, fileStream);
Console.WriteLine($"Uploaded {objectName}.");
}
You get the credentials JSON file from the google cloud portal where you create a bucket under your project..

Simple, with auth:
private void SaveFileToGoogleStorage(string path, string? fileName, string ext)
{
var filePath = Path.Combine(path, fileName + ext);
var gcCredentialsPath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "gc_sa_key.json");
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", gcCredentialsPath);
var gcsStorage = StorageClient.Create();
using var f = File.OpenRead(filePath);
var objectName = Path.GetFileName(filePath);
gcsStorage.UploadObject(_bucketName, objectName, null, f);
Console.WriteLine($"Uploaded {objectName}.");
}

Including SAML2.0 token in WCF service call without using WIF

I'm trying to set up a WCF service protected by ADFS. I'm currently able to request a token and send it with the request using WIF and Thinktecture IdentityModel 4.5 with the following code:
static SecurityToken GetToken()
{
var factory = new WSTrustChannelFactory(
new UserNameWSTrustBinding(SecurityMode.TransportWithMessageCredential),
"https://fs2.server2012.local/adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed")
{
TrustVersion = TrustVersion.WSTrust13
};
if (factory.Credentials != null)
{
factory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = #"username";
factory.Credentials.UserName.Password = "password";
}
var rst = new RequestSecurityToken
{
RequestType = RequestTypes.Issue,
KeyType = KeyTypes.Symmetric,
AppliesTo = new EndpointReference(
"https://wcfservicecertificate/wcfservice/Service.svc/wstrust"),
};
var channel = factory.CreateChannel();
RequestSecurityTokenResponse rstr;
return channel.Issue(rst, out rstr);
}
With this I can call the WCF service by using ChannelFactory.CreateChannelWithIssuedToken:
var factory = new ChannelFactory<IService>(binding,
new EndpointAddress("https://wcfservicecertificate/wcfservice/Service.svc/wstrust"));
if (factory.Credentials != null)
{
factory.Credentials.SupportInteractive = false;
factory.Credentials.UseIdentityConfiguration = true;
}
var proxy = factory.CreateChannelWithIssuedToken(GetToken());
var result= proxy.GetData(2);
This works as expected but can only be used on (mobile) windows platforms. I would also like to be able to use the same principle on iOS and Android. Using this article I was able to request a security token from ADFS using the following code:
const string soapMessage =
#"<s:Envelope xmlns:s=""http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope""
xmlns:a=""http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing""
xmlns:u=""http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd"">
<s:Header>
<a:Action s:mustUnderstand=""1"">http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/RST/Issue</a:Action>
<a:To s:mustUnderstand=""1"">https://fs2.server2012.local/adfs/services/trust/13/UsernameMixed</a:To>
<o:Security s:mustUnderstand=""1"" xmlns:o=""http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd"">
<o:UsernameToken u:Id=""uuid-6a13a244-dac6-42c1-84c5-cbb345b0c4c4-1"">
<o:Username>username</o:Username>
<o:Password Type=""http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText"">password</o:Password>
</o:UsernameToken>
</o:Security>
</s:Header>
<s:Body>
<trust:RequestSecurityToken xmlns:trust=""http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512"">
<wsp:AppliesTo xmlns:wsp=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy"">
<a:EndpointReference>
<a:Address>https://wcfservicecertificate/wcfservice/Service.svc/wstrust</a:Address>
</a:EndpointReference>
</wsp:AppliesTo>
<trust:KeyType>http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/SymmetricKey</trust:KeyType>
<trust:RequestType>http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/Issue</trust:RequestType>
<trust:TokenType>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion</trust:TokenType>
</trust:RequestSecurityToken>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>";
var webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8");
var result = webClient.UploadString(
address: "https://fs2.server2012.local/adfs/services/trust/13/UsernameMixed",
method: "POST",
data: soapMessage);
This results in a SAML2.0 token which I would like to send in a request to our WCF service in order to authenticate. There are various sources (including the article mentioned earlier) which state that this should be possible but I've yet to find a solution.
Any help would be appreciated.

You can use one of hybrid solutions which use SAML with OAuth or other authorization technologies. This is more secure against phising techniques. For SAML only approach, you can refer to following link: How to pass security tokenfrom one wcf service to another wcf service. It is said that you need to enable saveBootstrapTokens property on webconfig.
This link can be useful too: Availability of Bootstrap Tokens

This can easily be done without using WIF. Lets completely avoid WIF and the .Net framework and do it in Java for illustration purposes. First make a call to the Security Token Service using the template approach like you have done. You then need to extract the SAML from the response, Base64 encode it and stuff it in the Autorization header of the subsequent request to your protected WCF service. You may also need to do the same with a ProofKey if you are coding for Non-Repudiation. Also I'm only showing authentication using username/password for brevity as Certificate Authentication involves much more work - you have to hash (SHA1 )part of the message then encrypt the hash with the private key of the cert and then add this as a xml element to the original message etc...
Here is the java helper code:
import java.io.*;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.Base64;
import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
public class SecurityService {
private String _username;
private String _password;
private String _stsUrl;
private String _samlAssertion;
private String _samlEncoded;
private String _binarySecret;
private String _workingDirectory;
private String _platformUrl;
private String _soapBody;
private Integer _responseCode;
private Integer _plaformResponseCode;
private String _response;
private String _platformResponse;
private String _xproofSignature;
private Map<String, String> _headerDictionary;
public void setUsername(String username) {
this._username = username;
}
public void setPassword(String password) {
this._password = password;
}
public void setStsUrl(String stsUrl) {
this._stsUrl = stsUrl;
}
public String getStsUrl() {
return _stsUrl;
}
public void setplatformUrl(String platformUrl) {
this._platformUrl = platformUrl;
}
public String getSamlAssertion() {
return _samlAssertion;
}
public String getSamlEncoded() {
return _samlEncoded;
}
public String getSoapBody() {
return _soapBody;
}
public Integer getResponseCode() {
return _responseCode;
}
public Integer getPlatformResponseCode() {
return _plaformResponseCode;
}
public String getResponse() {
return _response;
}
public String getPlatformResponse() {
return _platformResponse;
}
public String getXProofSignature() {
return _xproofSignature;
}
public String getBinarySecret() {
return _binarySecret;
}
public String gePlatFormUrl() {
return _platformUrl;
}
public void setHeaderDictionary(Map<String, String> headerDictionary){
this._headerDictionary = headerDictionary;
}
public Map<String, String> getHeaderDictionary(){
return _headerDictionary;
}
public SecurityService() throws Exception {
}
public SecurityService(Boolean useConfig) throws Exception {
if (useConfig) {
this._workingDirectory = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\app.config";
this.getProperties();
}
}
public void sendAuthenticatedGet() throws Exception {
URL obj = new URL(_platformUrl);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
// optional default is GET
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
// Add request header
con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Saml " + _samlEncoded);
con.setRequestProperty("X-ProofSignature", _xproofSignature);
_plaformResponseCode = con.getResponseCode();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
_platformResponse = response.toString();
}
public void sendAuthenticatedPost(String body) throws Exception {
URL obj = new URL(_platformUrl);
HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
//add request header
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
// Add request header
con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Saml " + _samlEncoded);
con.setRequestProperty("X-ProofSignature", _xproofSignature);
// Add Azure Subscription Key using generic Add Headers method
if (_headerDictionary != null) {
for (String key : _headerDictionary.keySet()) {
con.setRequestProperty(key, _headerDictionary.get(key));
}
}
_soapBody = body;
// Send post request
con.setDoOutput(true);
DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
//wr.writeBytes(urlParameters);
wr.writeBytes(_soapBody);
wr.flush();
wr.close();
_responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
_response = response.toString();
}
// HTTP POST request
public void sendPostToSts() throws Exception {
URL obj = new URL(_stsUrl);
HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
//add request header
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/soap+xml");
String body = getTemplateCertificate();
_soapBody = (((body.replace("[Created]", Instant.now().toString())).replace("[Expires]", Instant.now()
.plusSeconds(300).toString())).replace("[username]", _username)).replace("[password]", _password).replace("[stsUrl]", _stsUrl);
// Send post request
con.setDoOutput(true);
DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
//wr.writeBytes(urlParameters);
wr.writeBytes(_soapBody);
wr.flush();
wr.close();
_responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
_response = response.toString();
// Get Binary Secret
// <trust:BinarySecret></trust:BinarySecret>
final Pattern patternBinarySecret = Pattern.compile("<trust:BinarySecret>(.+?)</trust:BinarySecret>");
final Matcher matcherBinarySecret = patternBinarySecret.matcher(response.toString());
matcherBinarySecret.find();
_binarySecret = matcherBinarySecret.group(1);
// Get the SAML Assertion
final Pattern patternEncryptedAssertion = Pattern.compile("<trust:RequestedSecurityToken>(.+?)</trust:RequestedSecurityToken>");
final Matcher matcherEncryptedAssertion = patternEncryptedAssertion.matcher(response.toString());
matcherEncryptedAssertion.find();
_samlAssertion = matcherEncryptedAssertion.group(1);
byte[] proofKeyBytes = _binarySecret.getBytes("UTF-8");
String encoded = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(proofKeyBytes);
byte[] decoded = Base64.getDecoder().decode(encoded);
// SAML Stuff - Works beautifully
byte[] samlBytes = _samlAssertion.getBytes("UTF-8");
_samlEncoded = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(samlBytes);
_xproofSignature = this.encode(_samlAssertion, _binarySecret);
}
private static String readFile( String file ) throws IOException {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new FileReader(file));
String line = null;
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
String ls = System.getProperty("line.separator");
try {
while( ( line = reader.readLine() ) != null ) {
stringBuilder.append( line );
stringBuilder.append( ls );
}
return stringBuilder.toString();
} finally {
reader.close();
}
}
// Embedded WS-Trust template for username/password RST
private static String getTemplate () {
return "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope\" xmlns:a=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing\" xmlns:u= \"http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd\"><s:Header><a:Action s:mustUnderstand= \"1\">http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/RST/Issue</a:Action><a:MessageID>urn:uuid:cfea5555-248c-46c3-9b4d- 54936b7f815c</a:MessageID><a:ReplyTo><a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address></a:ReplyTo><a:To s:mustUnderstand=\"1\">[stsUrl]</a:To><o:Security s:mustUnderstand=\"1\" xmlns:o=\"http://docs.oasis- open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd\"><u:Timestamp u:Id=\"_0\"><u:Created>[Created] </u:Created><u:Expires>[Expires]</u:Expires></u:Timestamp><o:UsernameToken u:Id=\"uuid-e273c018-1da7-466e-8671-86f6bfe7ce3c- 17\"><o:Username>[username]</o:Username><o:Password Type=\"http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username- token-profile-1.0#PasswordText\">[password] </o:Password></o:UsernameToken></o:Security></s:Header><s:Body><trust:RequestSecurityToken xmlns:trust=\"http://docs.oasis- open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512\"><wsp:AppliesTo xmlns:wsp=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy \"><wsa:EndpointReference xmlns:wsa=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing \"><wsa:Address>https://mbplatform/</wsa:Address></wsa:EndpointReference></wsp:AppliesTo><trust:RequestType>http://docs.oasis- open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/200512/Issue</trust:RequestType><trust:TokenType>http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-saml-token- profile-1.1#SAMLV2.0</trust:TokenType></trust:RequestSecurityToken></s:Body></s:Envelope>";
}
private String encode(String key, String data) throws Exception {
Mac sha256_HMAC = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
SecretKeySpec secret_key = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes("UTF-8"), "HmacSHA256");
sha256_HMAC.init(secret_key);
return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(sha256_HMAC.doFinal(data.getBytes("UTF-8")));
}
private void getProperties() throws Exception {
Properties prop = new Properties();
String fileName = _workingDirectory;
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(fileName);
prop.load(is);
_username = prop.getProperty("app.username");
_password = prop.getProperty("app.password");
_platformUrl = prop.getProperty("app.platformUrl");
_stsUrl = prop.getProperty("app.stsUrl");
}
}
and here is example usage:
SecurityService mbss = new SecurityService(true);
mbss.sendPostToSts();
System.out.println("CONTACTING AZURE SECURITY TOKEN SERVICE");
System.out.println("\nSending 'POST' request to URL : " + mbss.getStsUrl());
System.out.println("\nPost parameters : \n" + mbss.getSoapBody());
System.out.println("\nResponse Code : " + mbss.getResponseCode());
System.out.println("\nHERE IS THE SAML RESPONSE\n");
System.out.println(mbss.getResponse());
System.out.println("\nHERE IS THE BINARY SECRET\n");
System.out.println(mbss.getBinarySecret());
System.out.println("\nHERE IS THE SAML ASSERTION\n");
System.out.println(mbss.getSamlAssertion());
System.out.println("\nHERE IS THE ENCODED SAML ASSERTION\n");
System.out.println(mbss.getSamlEncoded());
System.out.println("\nHERE IS THE X-PROOF SIGNATURE\n");
System.out.println(mbss.getXProofSignature());
System.out.println("\nNOW CONTACTING WCF SERVICES WITH SECURITY HEADER\n");
mbss.sendAuthenticatedGet();
System.out.println("\nSending 'GET' request to URL : " + mbss.gePlatFormUrl());
System.out.println("Response Code : " + mbss.getPlatformResponseCode());
System.out.println("\nHERE ARE THE RESULTS FOLKS...ENJOY\n");
System.out.println(mbss.getPlatformResponse());