Active Directory in Silverlight
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Hi, I have a silverlight application with a login page. I want to check login members against Active Directory members and then redirect them to respective pages. I have done Active directory validation in dot net.But in Silverlight, I am unable to find "System.DirectoryServices" dll. Any help regarding this will be very useful.Thanks in advance :) .
Gomathi R
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Hi, I have a silverlight application with a login page. I want to check login members against Active Directory members and then redirect them to respective pages. I have done Active directory validation in dot net.But in Silverlight, I am unable to find "System.DirectoryServices" dll. Any help regarding this will be very useful.Thanks in advance :) .
Gomathi R
You're not going to be able to use Active Directory in a Silverlight app. You'll need a Windows-specific solution since Active Directory is Windows specific and Silverlight is not. You could possibly use Active Directory on a server, maybe through a WCF or other web service.
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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Hi, I have a silverlight application with a login page. I want to check login members against Active Directory members and then redirect them to respective pages. I have done Active directory validation in dot net.But in Silverlight, I am unable to find "System.DirectoryServices" dll. Any help regarding this will be very useful.Thanks in advance :) .
Gomathi R
If you are using Silverlight 3 with RIA Service, you may want to check-out this http://silverlight.net/forums/p/107447/243735.aspx[^]
Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) Microsoft MVP (Silverlight), WPF/Silverlight Insiders
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Hi, I have a silverlight application with a login page. I want to check login members against Active Directory members and then redirect them to respective pages. I have done Active directory validation in dot net.But in Silverlight, I am unable to find "System.DirectoryServices" dll. Any help regarding this will be very useful.Thanks in advance :) .
Gomathi R
We had the same challenge. The key is to stand it up behind a secured WCF service. The WCF service can make the call to check active directory and then return the status to the Silverlight client. You'll also want to look into generating a token or some unique way to "tag" the session as authenticated on Silverlight so that subsequent calls don't have to re-authenticate every time.
Jeremy Likness Latest Article: Hierarchal Data Templates in Silverlight Blog: http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/
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We had the same challenge. The key is to stand it up behind a secured WCF service. The WCF service can make the call to check active directory and then return the status to the Silverlight client. You'll also want to look into generating a token or some unique way to "tag" the session as authenticated on Silverlight so that subsequent calls don't have to re-authenticate every time.
Jeremy Likness Latest Article: Hierarchal Data Templates in Silverlight Blog: http://csharperimage.jeremylikness.com/
hi, Keep in mind, All the protocolls must be implemented to be accessible from the Silverlight sandbox. As no socket support is available right now, its not possible for 3rd party devs to do that now... You only could write a webservice proxy and access that proxy from the app. Probably the most easy and approachable way to do it right now.
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Hi, I have a silverlight application with a login page. I want to check login members against Active Directory members and then redirect them to respective pages. I have done Active directory validation in dot net.But in Silverlight, I am unable to find "System.DirectoryServices" dll. Any help regarding this will be very useful.Thanks in advance :) .
Gomathi R
what you need to do is to implement a web service that queries the AD and use this web service as a proxy to retrieve AD information