Silverlight RIA Services - how to do Windows Authentication?
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I am building my first Silverlight 3 + RI Services application and need some help.
It will be deployed in an controlled corporate intranet, 100% windows clients. I have started from the Silverlight Business Application template.
These are my requirements:
- Upon launch the application needs to recognize the currently logged-in user.
- The application needs to have access to other properties of the user in AD, such as email, full name, and group membership.
- Group membership is used to grand certain features in the application.
- A "login as a different user" link is to be always available - Some machines are available throughout the enterprise, logged-in as a certain generic user (verified by the absence of certain membership groups). In this case one can enter credentials and log in (impersonate) to the application as a user different from the one already logged-into the machine.
- This user is to be used in service calls
I have modified the following in the default Business Application template:
- App.xaml: appsvc:WindowsAuthentication instead of the default FormsAuthentication
- Web.config: authentication mode="Windows"
With these modifications I resolve requirement #1 (get the currently logged-in user). But when I examine RiaContext.Current.User, I don't have access to other properties from AD, such as group memberships. How can I achieve my other requirements?
Thanks for your help.
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