Windows Authentication/Windows network intranet apps, in Serenity v8

[LSNicholls]

Hello,

I've created a public repo for implementing Windows Authentication in Serenity. It only works in v8+, because of some required changes in Core libraries, but it doesn't require any premium features.

https://github.com/LSNicholls/Serenity-WinAuthSample

This will probably only be interesting to people working on-prem and in any intranet, but I have a client who really doesn't want data on the Net and whose users really don't want to deal with yet another user name and password.

As the readme for the project explains, the full steps that are followed in the sample project are covered in a Doc Page integrated into the application itself. This may have been a screwy idea, but the changes go quite far beyond the bare minimum to simply recognize Windows users, and I thought it would be easier to visualize if you could refer to the running sample while reading. If it is inconvenient, I could add a wiki page here.

Hope this is helpful to somebody. My Serenity code is probably not the cleanest, but I do think the ideas are useful :-).

If somebody wants to discuss how I did this before v8, which was pretty different, I'm happy to discuss that as well.