Hi all,

I just did a lengthy thread on the approach that would be necessary to take a .net 4 winforms app and start the migration over to web - the thread is here:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=616192

long story short, i have an existing database with several tables in it, but the key table for discussion was the login table - it contained (among others), two fields - username and password.

my initial thread was asking if it were possible to point to that database and simply authenticate against those two fields and allow entry without jumping through all of the asp.net service providers hoops until i could properly learn them.

My same question now stands, but for Silverlight 4.

In short, i've created a new silverlight application in VS2010, i've dragged two labels - user name and password on to it, i've dragged a textbox for username, i've dragged a password box for password, and i've dragged a button with the text login on it to the screen.

I've modified the web.config to include the connection string to the database.....

and that's where i'm stumped - the guys over in the asp forums over the course of the thread above provided a 100% functioning solution (which i have to give full credit to brin351 and gep13 for providing by the way, it was bang on) - but i really really like the look and multibrowser context that silverlight 4 can function in and that's the route i would like to pursue if it's possible

I've started watching the silverlight videos on RIA services, but they're all about populating datagrids and listboxes for the most part. And yes, i will get there eventually, but for the moment, i'm just after a simple user and pass screen with a login button that if authenticates, redirects to the main dashboard of the silverlight app - if not, it says sorry and kicks ya out.

Any further insight would be appreciated, and for the record, I'm a winforms guy that is just starting in to the web side of things, so be gentle :-)

thanks all.