Lately I’ve been having a lot of fun architecting and developing a Silverlight project at work that uses WCF to communicate with a backend CMS system. One of the challenges however, was coming up with a reusable, maintainable, and extensible means of applying security to the WCF services. My solution just happens to be the topic of this post.
Luckily, I stumbled upon a post by David Betz (Understanding WCF Services in Silverlight 2) in which he walks the reader through a thorough tutorial on the proper way of using WCF with Silverlight. If you haven’t already read Understanding WCF Services...
As I mentioned in my very first blog post, I intend on writing a series of posts about using Silverlight with Prism – something similar to The Application Corner with Tim Heuer. In order to get a jump start on the series, I thought it’d be a good idea to get the “setup” post done and out of the way. So without further ado… Prerequisites In order to follow along with this post and series, I assume the following: You’re familiar with the Prism guidance concepts and understand why you would use it to...