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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jordan Knight Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 12:35 PM To: listserver@ozSilverlight.com Subject: RE: [OzSilverlight] A couple of questions Hi Michael, I can answer 1 and 3 for you (and maybe a bit of 4): The short answer is Forms Authentication and/or ASP.NET membership - i.e. use the normal stuff :). Whenever Silverlight accesses the server, it uses the standard browser networking stack, so you will have access to session state, cookies and all the other goodies you expect. To find out which user is logged in you can use the ASP.NET Authentication Application Service, which can be exposed via WCF quite easily (then you can log in and check login status etc from Silverlight). 4 is a little more tricky, but basically you could hook up events to AJAX changes in the page then fire through pieces of information to Silverlight using the HTML JavaScript bridge... It's quite easy to do, have a Google around. Regards, Jordan Knight Readify - Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 403 532 404 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross McKinnon Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 12:20 PM To: listserver@ozSilverlight.com Subject: [OzSilverlight] A couple of questions Hi all, I am the CIO of Michael Hill Jeweller which is an international (US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia) jewellery retail chain whose global head office is based in Brisbane and we are in the process of replacing our global website. The executive here are very excited by the opportunities presented by silverlight and we will be developing the new site using this technology and are trying to release it as soon as possible. I did have a couple of questions which I have posed to Microsoft, but they have been unable to answer and most of them are directed towards my personally perceived weaknesses of silverlight and I was hoping that someone would be able to point out how they can be achieved. Hopefully our work arounds are not the suggested best practice. 1) What is the best way of persisting user identity through multiple silverlight pages? 2) It appears to me that linq to SQL entities seem to lose the ability to maintain state (ie know what is changed) after passing through a wcf call and silverlight treats it like a normal class. Is that the case and if so, is that going to be changed? 3) What is the best practice for integrating security and sessions between asp.net / silverlight / wcf? 4) Are there plans for a binary formatter in the silverlight framework? 5) I have been overlaying silverlight pages over aspx with master and content pages. The largest issue with that is being able to pass information between your master and content pages (easily achievable in aspx), but are there any plans to implement a method to easily pass information between SL pages on the client (usually user specific information), other than at creation of the page. Thanks for any help in advance, Ross. 18/9/2008 Ross McKinnon listserver@ozSilverlight.com This email and any attachments ("Email") are intended only for the addressee and may contain privileged, confidential and/or disclosure-exempt information. You must not edit this Email without our express consent. Michael Hill Jeweller (Australia) Pty Ltd does not warrant that this Email is complete, error-free or virus free, and by opening any attachments, you accept full responsibility for the consequences. If you are not the addressee, you must not disseminate, rely upon or copy this Email, and you must immediately erase permanently and destroy all records of it and notify us by phone (at our cost). Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net