Access Secure Store credentials from 32bit Application

Question

I am trying to get some Secure Store credentials from SharePoint via a Visual Studio Extension but I am having an issue with the fact that Visual Studio is 32bit and SharePoint is 64bit. The examples on MSDN do not work

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394459.aspx - Microsoft.Office.SecureStoreService.Server.SecureStoreServiceException: Unable to obtain the local SPFarm.

http://blog.mikehacker.net/2010/01/20/sharepoint-2010-retrieving-credentials-from-secure-store-service/ - System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The Web application at http://phill-laptop/ could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

*I have managed to create a x64 console application and it both examples work beautifully, but I need this to work from Visual Studio.

I have had a look at the SecureStore web service but that doesn't seem to give me the methods I need.

Any help appreciated

Answer 1

You need some sort of bridge to connect the two. See the Stack Overflow question Calling 32bit Code from 64bit Process which talks about interprocess communication. They also point to this blog post which explains the whole thing.

It probably won't help you for a Visual Studio extension, but the obvious workaround is to write your own custom web service and call that instead.