ah okay, i didn't know that - i thought i would be able to redirect the authentication that is currently in use to the the newly added asp.net tables.....

so in moving forward, what would be a better approach to place a common service between the two app types - forms and web? there's WCF correct? and ria if we walk down the silverlight road.....

keep in mind this is a winforms guy that is now branching into asp.net so i may need baby steps here - i can pick up the logic very quickly of course, but in working through the logic of this thread i'm trying to create a "user manual" of sorts that hopefully others can follow, as i'm sure there's a ton of winforms apps that alot of dev's would love to "webinize" too :-)