Accessing the ASP.NET Authentication, Profile and Role Service in Silverlight

In ASP.NET 2.0, we introduced a very powerful set of application services in ASP.NET (Membership, Roles and profile).  In 3.5 we created a client library for accessing them from Ajax and .NET Clients and exposed them via WCF web services.    For more information on the base level ASP.NET appservices that this walk through is based on, please see Stefan Schackow excellent book Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership, and Role Management.

In this tutorial I will walk you through how to access the WCF application services from a directly from the Silverlight client.  This works super well if you have a site that is already using the ASP.NET application services and you just need to access them from a Silverlight client.    (Special thanks to Helen for a good chunk of this implantation)

Here is what I plan to show:

1. Login\Logout 

2. Save personalization settings 

3. Enable custom UI based on a user's role (for example, manager or employee) 

4. A custom log-in control to make the UI a bit cleaner 

Read more: Brad Abrams

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