C# Silverlight RIA Services Authentication - Step By Step How-To?!

Question

The Scenario

I have been following Brad Abrams Silverlight With Ria Tutorials In order to build a web-based application. I have implemented my own custom version of the application that is built throughout the tutorials and am hoping to add in some authentication to it.

The Problem

I have followed this tutorial also by Brad Abrams on Authentication which was totally useless. I have also looked at multiple other tutorials on Silverlight Authentication but they too are very ambiguous in assuming knowledge etc. (I have never implemented website authentication ever before).

The Question

Does anyone have (or could you write one) a step-by-step guide for total dummies to implementing Silverlight with RIA Services Authentication? It can be totally basic, I just need to be able to define two users (an admin and a guest) and have the site only be accessible to these two accounts.

Help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Making RIA Services to work with authentication can be just using standard forms auth or windows authentication. Its just code. If you don't know how to get Forms Auth or Windows Auth working with ASP.NET, that's where i'd start.

Answer 2

Brad Abrams has a blog post up now further explaining authentication.

Brad Abrams