Getting the user credentials both in and out of the browser in Silverlight

Silverlight is quite powerful and gives you a lot of flexibility. You can have your application run in the browser our you can opt for a more Windows like experience and run your application Out of the Browser. One of the frustrations that I have encountered in the past, is trying to write my code so that it supports both.

A common scenario is trying to get the current user signed into the computer. With Silverlight running in the browser, this is quite easy by passing information into the InitParams. But this becomes quite a bit more difficult when you are trying to do the same Out of the Browser.

The following is a screen shot of retrieving the currently signed in user from a web page:

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