Hi Joe,

I mentioned a while a go that I was building a user files feature (each mojo user can have their own private files). I've completed the web site developments and I now need to expose the files via a WCF service.

Since I need to check the user with each service call I was just going to pass the username and password as service parameters and use the default Membership.ValidateUser methods:

            if (Membership.ValidateUser(username, password))
            {

var user = SiteUser.GetByEmail(CacheHelper.GetCurrentSiteSettings(), username);
if (user != null)
{
// return user data
return user.Name;
}
else
{
return "Could not find user with email " + username;
}
}
else
{
return "Invalid user";
}              

I see you have included the built in AuthenticationService WCF service in mp. It is my understanding that I would need to handle the validating of the user then in the client before calling my custom service? I would rather do it all at once so am thinking my method above will be best.

Just thought I would get your opinions before I go ahead with it.

Thanks

Ben

Hi Joe,

It's from a WPF app (not silverlight) so no http context so think I need to do it how I have done above.