SilverlightShow: Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. Comments

Re: Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls.

MattHousley — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:29:13 GMT

Hi,

I solved the '404 on the login.aspx' problem by changing the connection credentials in the Application Settings. The Web Application was set to use "Application user (pass-through authentication)" [see "Connect As" in the Edit Application dialog]. Once this was changed to a "Specific user", all was well.

Hope that helps anyone with the same problem.

Matt

Re: Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls.

MattHousley — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:44:39 GMT

These are a great set of articles thank you.

When I run these under Visual Studio, they work great, but when I deploy into IIS, I get a 404 for /MVVM.WebHost/login.aspx

Any ideas what's causing this?

Re: Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls.

Mark2002 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:13:29 GMT

Is there any downside to wrapping a WCF service in an RIA service other then the mentioned cross domain issue? Performance?

I had not considered this and have my WCF services as "pure" WCF services using the security techniques that you descibed. It is a pain to maintain the WCF service references (I forget to update the reference way too many times after making a service contract change :-) ) and to fiddle with the endpoints for http versus https. Getting rid of these alone would make it worth my while to recast as RIA services.