SharePoint Dragons

A question that is asked regularly is how to do forms authentication when you’re using the SharePoint client object model. We have blogged about this before at
http://sharepointdragons.com/2012/04/20/authentication-when-using-the-sharepoint-client-object-model/
, but the solution below is clean and well worth to mention (it uses the managed client object model):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;

namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {               
                using (var context = new ClientContext(“http://astro:46454″))
                {
                    context.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.FormsAuthentication;
                    FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo formsAuthInfo = new FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo(“anton”, “anton!0″);
                    context.FormsAuthenticationLoginInfo = formsAuthInfo;

                   
                    var site = context.Site;
                    context.Load(site);
                    context.ExecuteQuery();
                    Console.WriteLine(site.Url);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception err)
            {
                var errMsg = err.Message;
            }
        }
    }
}