Using asp.net membership "THROUGH" wcf data services?

Question

Hi there,

can anyone help?

I recently had asp.net membership setup using a connection string to my db via the web.config in my service layer. It enabled me to do something like this :-

    public bool IsValidLogin(string username, string password)
    {
        return System.Web.Security.Membership.ValidateUser(username, password);
    }

As you can see i am using methods on the system.web.security.membership namesspace and it works as it should :-)

I have now moved my database onto a WCF Data Service, again this is working well for various tables i have...

But i do i get the membership to point to the wcf data service, i can't edit the connection string to point to the data service can I?

hence i could still do

  return System.Web.Security.Membership.ValidateUser(username, password);

and it would contact the tables/db via wcf data service and not a physical connection string.

It seems pretty silly to still have a connection string in my service layer ... when all my data access is done via my dataaccess layer (wcf data service)

Any ideas really appreciated

I am stuck ..

Answer 1

Just wrap the membership call and expose it as a WCF service. Easy, then all of your applications can just call the service's "ValidateUser" method, and the underlying code running in the service would defer to the membership API