How to get ASP.NET Username and Role in Silverlight?

We have an ASP.NET application that handles authentication and authorization. Recently I added a Silverlight control that needs to know the Username and the Role of the currently logged in user.

Can anyone tell me how this is best done?

Bogusław Dobrogost, May 11, 2010

Reply 1

See if the below links helps you. It has few approaches.

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/120129/275210.aspx

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/11325/36194.aspx

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/7cc2760f-50f2-492d-9d62-48ad5c7f70b4/aspnet-membership-and-ro.aspx

Sreenivas Manyam Rajaram, May 12, 2010