How should I handle user identity for a Window Phone / WCF / ASP.NET MVC application?

Question

I\'m working on an application which allows data entry and display from both a Windows Phone application and an MVC 3 web interface. Data access for the phone client is via aut

Answer 1

If you need to link the Phone to a user on the MVC site you could do what Netflix and Amazon do for Roku and other devices and have some sort of an activation process. To make it easier you could use a QR Code or some other type of barcode generated by the MVC site, have the user take a picture of it, and process the image using the Silverlight ZXing Barcode Scanning Library. Probably a bit convoluted, but it works for all the set top boxes.