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robhouweling — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:03:03 GMT

Hi Jesse,

Thanks!

You're welcome to steal the approach.

There's no patent issued... ;)

Rob

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jesseliberty — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:23:14 GMT

Well, I wasn't as back as I thought (things linger...)

Rob, great post, I will add to my list to do a video on the topic of authentication -- I see two reasonable ways to approach it

(1) basically steal the appproach shown in rob's posting or

(2) use ASP.NET's membership framework and wrap that around a Silverlight app.

-j

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kamii47 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:08:29 GMT

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samcov — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:57:48 GMT

@kamii47: LOL, surely you're joking!

If he told you, he's have to shoot you, and Jesse is way too nice a guy for that.

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robhouweling — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:05:13 GMT

Glad to hear you're okay now, Jesse...

I saw Ken's reaction and thought this might be a good place to start for the formsauthentication part...:

web-snippets.blogspot.com/.../authentication-in-silverlight-using.html

Hope it helps.

Rob

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kamii47 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:04:02 GMT

And Any news regarding SL 2 releases Candidate 1 or RTM?

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Ken Cox [MVP] — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:49:48 GMT

Jesse,

I said 'WCF' but any authenticated Web service (that talks to a database) would be fine.

The hard part seems to be securing Silverlight's data access out there in the cloud.

Ken

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jesseliberty — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:39:26 GMT

I'm open to this idea since folks keep asking for it, but my take would be to do the CRUD in something that does CRUD for a living (say a database) and then interact with Silverlight (as the biz layer and UI layer) through a web service.

But, I'll give it another think.

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Ken Cox [MVP] — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:27:07 GMT

Good to hear you made it back to the blog alive, or at least mostly alive.

I'm casting about for a simple-yet-realistic data-oriented sample using SL 2. This means CRUD operations in Silverlight against a secure (SSL), forms authenticated WCF service.

If anyone has sample code to do all this, you can reach me at kjopc@hotmail.com.

Ken