A reader recently asked me to expand on the ASP.NET Authentication + Silverlight concept I started.. Specifically they wanted to do know how they can have a web service that returns different results depending on who calls the service (and what role they are in). Here is my quick walk through of adding that capability to the Silverlight+ASP.NET AppServices sample. First, let's look at the scenario we are trying to enable. I wanted to add a "Fire Bob" button. Hopefully, no line of business application has a "fire employee" button, but I thought it showed of the concepts well. Clearly only managers should be able to fire bob, so the button should be grayed out if you are not logged in or logged in...(read more) ...
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