Use Authenticate to authenticate a user using the Sign In dialog box (shown below). Authenticate displays the modal Sign In dialog box for users to enter their Windows Live ID.
Upon successful authentication, IsAuthenticated returns true and many of the other methods and properties of the Identity object are initialized for use.
If a user has stored his or her credentials on the computer and you want to implement automatic sign-in for the default user of your application, use the Authenticate method instead. For more information, see Implementing Automatic Sign-in.