Stand-alone Silverlight Web Application that need Authentication

Question

I am writing a stand-alone Silverlight Web Application that has the ability for users to log-in.

I also wrote a WCF server that has a service method that gets a username + password and returns true/false if the user exists in the database and the password is correct.

Because this web application is stand alone ==> I can't use the build in ASP.NET Authentication.

Is there some way to deal with this log-in in some easy way (maybe to use some exist classes)?

Is there some existing class that can enable the 'Stay signed in'?

(I'm not using RIA Services in my code)

Thanks for any help.

Its not same question - i need to know how to make this without ASP.NET support because the web app. is stand alon. — Yanshof
Could you explain "this web application is stand alone" vs "I also wrote a WCF server"? Is the WCF service running on the client? What kind of security are you expecten then? — Emond
The stand Alon mean that i don't have any access to the web site that will be the host of the web application => that mean that all the asp.net support from the web site host does not exist. The WCF server does not run on the client machine. — Yanshof
@Yanshof, I don't get it. What do you mean by: "that mean that all the asp.net support from the web site host does not exist"? — Emond
@Yanshof, the problem is not technology but the wording of your question. "Standalone" means something completely different from how you are using it. Is ASP.NET not available at all or is the Membership and Role database not available? — Emond

Emond Emond · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-02T07:55:22

If you need to authenticate on a server that does not support ASP.NET you need another server side programming platform to create the required functionality that will run on the server. It could be any kind of Server side script, ranging from PHP to Node.js depending on what is available on the server.

This will probably mean that you will have to rewrite the client a bit as these platforms will use different serialization (JSON) and web service protocols (REST)

EDIT

Now that the question is clear (the Membership and Role database is not available) you have several options:

Try to get the database installed (easiest)
Use a file-based database (E.g., SQLServer Compact) that can be deployed along with your application (harder because you will have to setup the standard filling of the database, but this might help)
Write a custom Membership and Role provider that authenticates against a different and available store such as Active Directory (hardest)

Stand-alone Silverlight Web Application that need Authentication

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