Silverlight using WCF – Windows Authentication

Last two days I was fighting with IIS and a Silverlight Web application to make Windows Authentication working for Silverlight application which uses WCF service to get database data.

It was not as simple as I thought when I started it. There is few good articles around it on web. I don’t want to repeat the same here. Refer

  1. WCF Authentication & IIS an Intro: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx
  2. Direct approach: http://rouslan.com/2009/03/20-steps-to-get-together-windows-authentication-silverlight-and-wcf-service
    Not helped in my case L
  3. Forum Discussion: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/bf138527-5528-4c9f-82db-861c19040250
  4. Technical Read: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wenlong/archive/2006/12/01/impersonation-with-double-identities.aspx
  5. CodeProject discussion
  6. Deligation MSDN Article
  7. Pattern & Practice guide

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