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Does Silverlight 3.0 contain session mechanics?

I'm trying to find out if Silverlight 3.0 has any session mechanics - as far as I recall, SL2 was suffering from the lack of it. If SL 3.0 doesn't have it (Sadly) - are there any good reads regarding session mechanics implementation?

I'm considering using a client-side singleton object to hold the session instance + a WCF service + a SQL Server DB - is this a good way to go?

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No, Silverlight is a client-only technology and doesn't necessarily have the same "session" or cookie semantics that ASP.NET has as a result.

You're more than free to

  • pass information to and from web services and your back-end,
  • store information on the machine in isolated storage (similar to a session, but do be careful - data is not encrypted unless you encrypt it),
  • use the HTML interoperability features to get/set/call JavaScript and the serving web page's DOM
  • allow your server to provide authentication and authorization, to enable login, out, etc.
Jeff Wilcox  2009-08-25 07:32:23
how do I go about the last option?
Maciek  2009-08-25 08:39:45
The last option means "leave it to the web server", so use a standard login, logout, etc., URL. Your client app doesn't need to be involved.
Jeff Wilcox  2009-08-25 15:39:12

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