I started to search 3 days ago and I already reached a good point by authenticating the user’s and getting back the login session which contains the following data :
access_token: "xxxx"
authentication_token: "xxxx"
expires: "1339934686"
expires_in: 3600
I want to get the user data and, if you have a previous knowledge, you will know that I need to Decode the authentication_token value to get a JSON object containing some properties including the UserID to get the user data.
When I try to include the JsonWebToken.cs class, which was supplied by Microsoft example, in my MVC site it couldn’t
resolve some references such as :
System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
DataContractJsonSerializer;
When i searched i found that i must add reference to
System.Runtime.Serialization.Json,
System.ServiceModel,
System.ServiceModel.Web.
When I did that no thing happened new.
Finally, I apologize for the long post, but my intent was to explain the problem and the steps I gone through.
I hope any body could give me a simple MVC example URL or help me with the token decoding by any why.
Maybe this will not cover your question fully, but here is a nice post where ASP.NET MVC app uses LiveID but doesn’t use an ASP.NET Membership provider:
http://blog.smarx.com/posts/actually-i-m-a-cia-agent
1) Reference for documentation is here: Windows Live ID Web Authentication SDK
2) and Live Connect Developer Center