Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Matt Thalman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:58:48 GMT

@Lyndon:

Attaching to the SecurityData service would be an alternate way of consuming it instead of the custom WCF RIA service approach. But I'm not sure it would be better. For one, you would need to specify at attach-time what authentication method you want to use when connecting to the service. If Forms auth is being used, you are essentially hardcoding which account you want to connect to the service with. If Windows auth, you'd be connecting to the SecurityData service with whichever Windows account your connecting service is running as. Maybe this is what you're looking for though. Plus there are performance considerations to take into account. Eric Erhard provides a good response to the general OData vs WCF RIA service question at social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../d10a7b22-2500-438f-8694-8515e9a95c5e.

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Lyndon — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:33:14 GMT

Another thought- would the new Odata functionality in the new beta allow for accessing the users , roles, and users in roles information in a similar way to the WCF RIA approach?

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Lyndon — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:47:48 GMT

Or per Paul Patterson's articel above as well

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Lyndon — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:45:42 GMT

Hi Matt,

I am assuming the example you posted last year on accessing roles and users through WCF RIA service would still then be the recommended approach for accessing lists of users, roles , and users in roles - until a more direct feature of some kind is provided?

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Matt Thalman — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:34:33 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Paul. We're aware of the demand for a feature that provides read-only access for non-admins. Just need to prioritize it with everything else.

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

paul van bladel — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:46:17 GMT

Excellent article.

Still wondering why there is no option to provide read-only access for non-admin users to the user registrations. This is often needed in a business app, e.g. an app where users assign tasks to each other or where a dropdown of users needs to be available based on a the role of these users.

kind regards

-paul.

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

LaurentzT — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:20:59 GMT

Thanks! Very helpful!

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

ADefwebserver — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:03:20 GMT

Thanks for this!

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Paul Patterson — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:52:35 GMT

Doh! I forgot to mention the article I was referencing... Using LightSwitch User Information in Lookup Lists... www.paulspatterson.com/.../microsoft-lightswitch-using-user-information-for-lookup-lists

Cheers again!

re: Using the SecurityData service in LightSwitch

Paul Patterson — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:46:37 GMT

Thank you!!

This answers a question that was posted by a reader on my blog. This is a tremendously valuable article matt.

Thanks again,

Paul

PaulSPatterson.com