Hi, I wan't to implement an reusable login framework which extends on WindowsIdentity to provide additional attributes which can be filled from the AD or a Database. Is the best method to implement IIDentity or to inherit from WindowsIdentity. If the latter, can someone post a sample on...more >>

All, OK, so I'm working on a template for our new ASP.NET applications. Part of this, includes using the new menu and breadcrumbs control in ASP.NET 2.0 (I'm using beta 2). I put the hierarchy of the applications and navigation in a database, and am able to pull that into the app by inhe...more >>

I think my other question is that: According to this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/SecNetAP05.asp in Table 4(last one) it says that : <identity impersonate="true"/> <authentication mode="Windows" /> then everything would be under the co...more >>

hello, i have been scouring the groups for the best possible solution to this problem, but can't seem to find my exact scenario, so hopefully someone can get me back on the right path. my situation is the following: i have a asp.net app that uses formsauthentication, and in the UserData fie...more >>

Hi I'm working on a WebApplication which uses Forms authentication. What I'd like is for a user to be able to open two browserwindows and login as two different users. However it seems like IE & FireFox uses the same cookie across Browser instances, so all my Session variables are shared ac...more >>

Hello, I am working on a test site to explore the new login controls and membership features of ASP.NET v2.0. I have tested the controls using SQL Express and have now decided to try using a central SQL Server 2000 database. When I use the all of the included controls with SQL Express every...more >>

I am trying to write to the event log using the following code from a aspx page benhind code. Function WriteEventlog(ByVal LogName, ByVal MachineName, ByVal Source, ByVal EventMessage, ByVal EventID, ByRef Category, ByRef ErrorResults) ***values ...more >>

Hi I am developing web application through which i've to write and read the values from the registry. When i set impersonate property to "false" it is displaying exception " Requested Registry Access is not allowed" so then i changed impersonate to "true" and it is reading values from the regi...more >>

Hi When am trying to open the asp.net web application am getting the following error. " visual studio.net can not create or open the application, the likeliest problem is that required components are not installed on the local web server. Run visual studio setup and the web development compon...more >>

We are using **NTLM** as the authentication type.If I use this in my ASP.NET application : <identity impersonate="true" username="MyUser" password="123"/> <authentication mode="Windows" /> and MyUser is the local account of the box which hosts my web application ,then can I connect to a r...more >>

We have an asp.net application with <identity impersonate="true"/> and <authentication mode="Windows" /> in our web config and we are using Windows integrated in IIS and also NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE account in its application pool. I create an object in Global.asax which monitors a folde...more >>

Hi I work for a company that has user and user roles in the database and a very, very complicated long list of rules on how to let a person see the data from a page or control. My question is I want to re-write the security object and I am looking for suggestions as to what the best way to...more >>

Hi All, I am using SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 version (NOT SQL SERVER EXPRESS EDITION) in my system named 'MySys'. I am developing a web application, in which i am using Membership services for storing my user's credentials. Now Have i to register SQL Server 2005 with ASP .Net, because, AS...more >>

I have a question on the ValidateRequest directive at the Page level. I ran into a case where my querystring was filled with some value that contained the '<', '>' symbols. I promptly got this error back from IIS: =============== 403: Access Forbidden Due to the presence of characters k...more >>

I'm using the RijndaelManaged example from MSDN, tweaked slightly to return a string. Encryption goes well, but when I use the Decrypt function, the return value is in the format of "1234 Notice there is no ending quotation mark, so when the value is used in a report, it looks like 1234☺, w...more >>

Using a webservice in asp.net, I make a call to Directory.CreateDirectory(@"c:\test") and this works fine. I can create any directory anywhere on my local machine. Now, I have an iomega NAS on the network. (There is not a domain). This drive does NOT use permissions and essentially everyon...more >>

Hi All I have installed SSL Certificate in my IIS and when I redirect to Https IE shows a Security Alert Dialog. Is there anybody who knows how to disable or block that Security Alert so that when any user access my Secured Page he will not get Security Alert Dialog. Any help will be appreci...more >>

Hello, I've got a serious Problem from out of nowhere that I'm not able to solve. Can someone please help me here? I'm trying to instantiate a Xslt document build in as a resource using: htmlTransformator = new XslTransform(); using (Stream mrs = typeof(MyType).Assembly.GetManifestRe...more >>

We have developed an asp.net web application which provides the user with a form to allow them to update configuration settings in the web.config file as well as other config files. The asp.net web page calls a c# dll to update the config file. When we do this we get an access denied error...more >>

Hi all, I need to find the size of a file which is located on a remote unix box.I have been given Samba mount acces for the shared folder through which i can access the file. I am using Fileinfo object to find the attributes of the file.When i use the Fileinfo object from a console application e...more >>