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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/05/16/getting-user-context-in-silverlight-2.aspx</link><description>I recently completed work on an internal Silverlight app. The project was a blast – it really reminded me of how coding could be fun again . One of the surprising gaps I found in Sliverlight was the inability to get the current user context (e.g. determine</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Better Basketball &amp;raquo; Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/05/16/getting-user-context-in-silverlight-2.aspx#8515475</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:35:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8515475</guid><dc:creator>Better Basketball &amp;raquo; Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.basketballs-sports.info/better-basketball/?p=1004"&gt;http://www.basketballs-sports.info/better-basketball/?p=1004&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/05/16/getting-user-context-in-silverlight-2.aspx#8518733</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 09:36:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8518733</guid><dc:creator>xwang</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Yeah, Of course it works. Since silverlight can get prameters by passing the vlaue into his parameter format. And Cons still!&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/05/16/getting-user-context-in-silverlight-2.aspx#8554380</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 12:35:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8554380</guid><dc:creator>Michael Sync</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Can you simply use object tag or asp:Silverlight control directly instead of using document.write? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/05/16/getting-user-context-in-silverlight-2.aspx#8572105</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:31:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8572105</guid><dc:creator>jevdemon</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Michael: its probably possible, I haven't looked into it. &amp;nbsp; I needed a quick and easy way to pass a dynamic parameter in and document.write seemed the easiest way to do it. &amp;nbsp; Again, it isn't pretty but it works.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Getting User Context in Silverlight 2</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/jevdemon/archive/2008/05/16/getting-user-context-in-silverlight-2.aspx#8695628</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:40:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8695628</guid><dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;you can access the membership info via a webservice like described here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/05/03/accessing-the-asp-net-authentication-profile-and-role-service-in-silverlight.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/05/03/accessing-the-asp-net-authentication-profile-and-role-service-in-silverlight.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think you can get querystring variables with this:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HtmlPage.Document.QueryString[&amp;quot;key&amp;quot;] &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(as in page.htm?key=pwd)&lt;/p&gt;
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