Applies to Silverlight 4, 5

Windows authentication, as we've used in the previous recipe, is very suitable for internal environments. However, if you're publishing a public Silverlight application, you typically require the user to enter his or her credentials. Besides that, the User object itself might be different: it might have extra properties; it might be an Employee object from your database.

In this recipe, we'll learn how we can achieve this kind of authentication.