The purporse of this library is to create an Authenticated ClientContext in an Claim-based SharePoint environment using Active Directoy Federation Services authentication via SAML.
The approach works in the following way:
- on calling ClaimClientContext.GetAuthenticatedContext the target teamsite will be opened in a web-browser component
- the security token will be cached getting the authentication information from the auth cookies
- the ClientContext returned from ClaimClientContext will ensure that the security token is added on each http request
Note: The library works by using the current user context. So, the user has to be logged on to a domain where ADFS SSO is configured. In case you need to switch the user's context or you don't have an ADFS SSO configuration in place, I recommend to use https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Sites-Core/blob/master/Core/SAML%20authentication.md.
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using StraliSolutions.CSOMSAML.Auth;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace Testapp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
using (ClientContext cxt =
ClaimClientContext.GetAuthenticatedContext("https://mywebapp.onmydomain.com/sites/teamsite"))
{
Web web = cxt.Web;
cxt.Load(web);
cxt.ExecuteQuery();//here the exception is thrown, when team site does not exist
Console.WriteLine("Teamsite accessible");
}
}
catch
{
Console.WriteLine("Teamsite not accessible");
}
}
}
}