Silverlight Templates

 

for a reference I've build a custom ASP-Membership, User-Login = eMail, a custom role- and profile-provider to save Usertemplate and other information in a own datatable with POCO and LinqToSQL.

 

I hope, I've time to convert this custom Membership-Example to DevForce for Silverlight, in the next two days. When I've done the work, I'll send you the code-sample.

 

Regards

Dirk

Thanks

Dave

 

 

We agree with you. We think it is important too! We want to fill this gap in our exposition of good practices as soon as we can. We're going to do so. At the moment, we are addressing what we think are more urgent priorities ... but we won't let this linger either.

 

I hasten to add that DevForce security is quite strong and can leverage the ASP Security protocols and artifacts. We don't have to change DevForce at all to get the login and registration experience you are requesting. We are only talking about some open source example code that imitates to some degree the material you find in the RIA Services template.

 

As I mentioned above, there are Learning Resources units ("080_Security\Silverlight\CodeCS") that propose an entity-based approach to login and ASP user account management. These are valuable clues to one possible way to use login and register with ASP Security; it's an entity-centric approach in contrast to RIA Service's operational approach but it does the job.

 

No, it does not tie into the Business Application tempate's UI. Whether you like that UI or not (hint: I do not), we know our audience would like to see it. Perhaps one of you will take a stab at it before we do ... I have merit badges waiting for you :-)

 

Meanwhile, ... a question for you: is it ok to suggest that you by-pass this feature for now and concentrate on your business functionality?

 

In principle, authentication is a service that should be performed externally to your application. You consume it, mostly through the side-effect of Authentication and Authorization state in the IPrincipal. RIA Services works this way as does DevForce. 

 

It follows that login and registration can be added later. At most you might need your custom derivative of UserBase to get at roles and permissions; you should be able to stub this out until we get our act together.

 

Obviously this answer won't help you if you must deploy to production tomorrow. If not, can you wait a bit for this?

 

Appreciatively, Ward (for IdeaBlade).

 

So are you saying that you are working on a DevForce / Silverlight solution using the ASP.NET security model?

 

What would be nice if we could make a Module that could be shared with all of us.

 

This would have a login screen / forgot password etc. This needs to "attach" to a User Repository that maps to the ASP.Net security DB Schema via the entity framework and DevForce. The LoginViewModel would have some event maybe that would be fired on a good log in maybe a RelayCommand or something.

 

The point is all of this could be packaged up and then added to a DevForce SL Template called "DevForce 2010 SL 4 app with Security" so after I press the button all of this is there as Long as I run the ASP.NET db script into my production DB then all is well.

 

Anyone want to help on this?  Does anyone want to "claim a part, better yet has anyone done this yet as that is coming up soon on my agenda.

 

 

 

There is a DevForce equivalent in the Learning Resources "Security" folder that also illustrates DevForce support for POCO classes.

 

We realize that we should do a better job of guiding folks with RIA Services backgrounds. An effort of that nature is high on our agenda for the next few weeks ... and ASP Security integration will get early attention. Please hold us to it!

 

I am hopeful you can proceed with the core of your application while we get our training materials together. We won't be far behind you.