Latest Contributions by ZacharyHart

For what I need, the SL viewer does 85% of what I want it to do. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain the identity manager functionality. I am aware (and have set up) a means of forms based authentication, but frankly if i'm going to go through all the trouble of setting up user's and roles on my server (using the built-in store) I'd just assume have the various services be authenticated there. Anyway, this brings me to basically trying to find a basic template and getting the functionality i need inserted into it. What is, in your opinion, the easiest way to set up your developing environment? Do I understand correctly that I need both Visual studio and Expression blend? Any tips or shortcuts would be greatly appreciated. ... View more

I'm painfully new at all this but here is the scenario: with help from ESRI, i was able to get the forms based authentication up and running for my silverlight viewer and deployed applications. My problem or hang-up is the fact that the simple forms solution stores user credentials coded in the login.aspx My ArcGIS server stores credentials in a SQL database and from an organizational standpoint it would be so much easier to adhere to that current workflow of creating and assigning users in SQL via AGS Manager. I've spent a good deal of time looking at various asp.net solutions but so far haven't found anything that doesn't seem to muck up the default.aspx in the root directory of the deployed silverlight app. My questions are: organizational convenience aside, does this plan make any sense or is it not really a safe method? keep in mind there is a proxy page in the background which the application is using to access secured services can anyone point me in a direction that allows me to set-up a login scenerio as described? OR can anyone point me in a direction which uses the now working forms based authentication but utilizes some sort of credential 'store' elsewhere which avoids relying on coding various users directly into the login? I'm looking at managing various user levels for 30-40 people. This may belong better in another forum, but with seemingly complicated default.aspx that silverlight utilizes I thought it best to place my question here. ... View more

Has anyone had this problem? We are using HTTPS/SSL, and for the install i made sure to use the secured Port. However these did not seem to matter as the web.config still refers to the machinename:80. Launching the viewer references HTTP://machinename:80/silverlight_builder.... returns a HTTP 403 forbidden error if you force the browser to the correct FQDN,a warning appears appears asking if you want to display mixed content...clicking yes the builder then loads. Deploying an app has the same problems and doesn't seem to want to load any basemaps (although that may be a simple configuration error?). I do have an incident logged with ESRI from a couple of days ago, I'm just desperately seeking and hoping that someone else from out the in the battlefield already encountered this and knows what to do. ... View more