Authentication in Silverlight using WCF and ASP.NET Membership Provider

WCF has provided many benefits for developing secure, scalable distributed applications. One of the nice features of WCF service security is its integration with ASP.NET Membership provider. Using this provider, a caller can be authenticated by the WCF service against the user credentials stored in the SQL Server ASPNETDB database. Recently while conducting a training for my clients for ASP.NET