Question

Hay,
I’m working on a windows form application (C#) that connects to a sharepoint site and read data from it (lists),

the question is:
how can I connect to the site using specific username/Password, and not using the current windowsUser or domain user.

Please advice

Edit: P.S.: working on SP 2007

My code:

 SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()
        {
            using (SPSite sourceSite = new SPSite(txtBoxSP.Text))
            {
                SPWeb sourceWeb = sourceSite.RootWeb;
                SPUserCollection usrs = sourceWeb.AllUsers;

                SPListCollection col = sourceWeb.GetListsOfType(SPBaseType.GenericList);

                foreach (SPList list in col)
                    System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("My Name: {0}, Type: {1}, Length: {2}",
                        list.Title, list.GetType().ToString(), list.ItemCount.ToString()));
            }
        });

Answer 1

Like this:

var cc = new CredentialCache();
cc.Add(
    new Uri(sourceSite.Url), 
    "NTLM", 
    new NetworkCredential("user", "password"));
sourceSite.Credentials = cc;

Of course hard-coding a password like this is not very secure. You might ask the user about it. NetworkCredential has another constructor taking a secure string for this purpose.

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UPDATE:

I didn’t notice you wre using the SharePoint object model. Initially I thought you were generating a proxy from the WSDL. Here’s an example of how to achieve this.