I am developing an .net Winforms application and I need to secure the connection to the sql server 2008 database. I plan to create a webservice as a middle tier that will handle the authentication and that will provide data manipulation. Is there a better way to go with? Does .net have components or tools for that? What is the best technique?
View 2 RepliesI need a bit of advice. I would like to store secure connection strings somewhere safe in vb.net. How can I build the secure connection strings in what situation and what would be the best?
As I have done the little research and found that the secure connection strings would be encrypted the strings and input the strings in app.config, so I would have to make a change in the app.config[code]...
I understand the possibilities for encrypting a connection string in .net v4. I have a win forms application that will be used by multiple people on different machines. I understand that I need to protect the connection string at time of the app being first run on the target machine. However I am concerned that for a period of time my connection string will be unencrypted. I am looking for advice in how to deploy my app with the connection string already encrypted or encrypted during installation. encrypting the connection string in a secure way?
View 1 RepliesI am making a program with a very good HWID system, but so far it uses a standard WebClient control, I want to know how to make it more secure, like possibly encrypting the connection to a site (Uses PHP), or making sure the connection isnt being tampered with. are their any tools/pieces of code to do these checks/encryption?[code]...
View 1 RepliesI'm using this code within my application to create a connection to our Active Directory server[code]...
View 2 RepliesI would like to store secure connection strings somewhere safe in vb.net. How can I build the secure connection strings in what situation and what would be the best??
As I have done the little research and found that the secure connection strings would be encrypted the strings and input the strings in app.config, so I would have to make a change in the app.config
To change from this unprotected app.config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
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The code have been built to a guy who known as Nick J. Fessel. I am not too sure if it very secure to use it so. Do anyone know that if the connection strings is secure or not?
info for the secure connection strings without being found out
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim mail As New MailMessage
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The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required
So I'm making a Program to Start/Restart/Stop and running commands from the Console for my Server.Now when someone uses the console, I want to be alerted of it on my Mail.I am using Visual Studio 2010.
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I am trying to get this program to send an email, but still no luck. I am getting the following error that I do not understand. I do not understand what I am doing wrong. Also, I may have an issue that the computer I am writing this code on and trying to send the message does not have ISS and is just windows XP home.
The error is below
System.Net.Mail.SmtpException was unhandled
Message="The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. k41sm2133530rvb.6"
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This emailing code wont seem to work in my program. I get an exception "The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was 5.5.1 authentication required."
Imports System.Net.Mail
Public Class emailStudent
Private Sub sendEmailButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles sendEmailButton.Click
SendMail()
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How to secure App.config file. As it contains all the passwords that connections use so any body can see the data in my databases. If we donot save the password at the time of making connection string, will it still be able to connect with the DB the same way?
View 1 RepliesI am working asp.net for a few years. In asp.net, database connection string is stored at web.config file. All page can share this connection string. Now, I need to learn how to create windows app. Where to store a connection string, e.g. connect to SQL, to Access DB, so that all windows forms can share it?
View 5 RepliesCan an application refuse the Sendkeys function? I am trying to write an app that will paste text into an application called Cerner which runs via a secure vpn. My code works fine going into notepad or word. I doesn't seem to do anything with the Cerner program.
I thought that the sendkeys command basically mimiced the keyboard.
I am creating a windows application which required Dynamic Connection String in the app starting (user need to provide db credentials through a form), After entering the connection credentials user redirected to new win form Everything is working fine but how can I pass my dynamic connection to another form.I tried to save it to App variable but I couldn't (I think its read only) Also I tried save it to registry but can't retrieve values.Is there any other option available ? like writing & retrieving ConString to a text file or XML.
View 1 RepliesDeploying Winforms Application to Client Machines Application Failing on start
View 8 RepliesI have an application that is written in VB.NET, using the System.Windows.Forms.Form as the front-end GUI. It runs perfectly on my Windows machine however recently there is a business requirement to convert this application to run as a web application so that people could view them in their blackberries when they go to the URL. Is there any quick way to perform such a conversion or I will have to translate the code line-by-line for such cases?
View 1 Repliesdetect whether the current application is a console or a winforms application.The reason that I want to do this is that I am developing a library with a global error handler in it and I need to know what type of application it is in order to be able to subscribe to the appropriate exception event.Obviously I could get the user to pass in a parameter specifying what type of application it is, but I would rather deal with that automatically so its all encapsulated from the user of the class.
View 1 RepliesSQL connection - I planned to create one sql connection object inside my own singleton class (say connectionmanager with Reference counting for 'SQL connection object' which is a member of the class) and open/close the connection whenever needed. As I like to give high importance for performance. And my application is a desktop based application accessing a remote database server (SQL server 2008), and will use only one connection string, 50 concurrent desktop users may access db server. Please advice.
As like many articles say if the answer is "Connection pooling is taken care by ado.net" - Does that mean that scope of connection pool is entire life of Application instance? Or is it in the scope of SQLConnection object?
Can we use css formatting in a vb application to give some enhancement? Examples would be changing the font color and or background? Are there any other way to customize a (VB)desktop application?
View 4 RepliesPossible Duplicate: Porting VB.NET Winforms Application to C# .Is there any way to convert a vb.net winforms application into c# ? In terms of both code and .vb (forms) files.
View 2 RepliesI need to convert my winform VB.NET application to an ASP.NET application.My current application has 4 forms, it reads a remote XML file, and uses a datagrid to collect user input and to create a report.It is a very simple application, and I would like to know where to start to convert it to ASP.NET.
View 3 RepliesI have a 3 tier applicaiton, winforms, business and data layers.I just pulled the projects out of souce control. My winforms application references business which references data.I added a reference to my business layer and my winforms project is not seeing the reference. "Names or type specified in the Imports . . . doesn't contain any public member or cannot be found . . .
View 1 RepliesHow can I get the path of a file on my computer or on the local area network.
I would to show a window that allows me to browse the file system when I click a button, and I want to select a file and get the path to the file. How can I do this?
P.S. I'm not looking to upload the file; I just want to get the path.
I need to use GridView in a Winforms application but it does not appear in my Toolbox (see attached).
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I have a windows program which is launched after pressing certain key combination (if its already running). Now i want to do this triggering through vb.net code? How can it be done?
View 3 RepliesI am looking to prompt the user to save data when they close a form window in a winforms application. I can't figure out how to trigger the prompt to the user, should they click the red box at the top right corner of the form.
My application currently has a boolean flag, that is set to True on textchanged event. So I will only need to check for the boolean value in whatever event is trigger by the red box.
My application writes to the event log if there is an error or other status updates.
The application checks to see if there is an event source named "applicationName"and if not, it creates the source (see code below).
This works fine if the user is an administrator.
If the user is not an administrator, an error is thrown when SourceExists is called:
{"The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security."}
In my environment, the typical user is NOT an admin. Therefore, I cannot use the event log in my application.
Is there a way around this, or is the event log effectively useless for distributed applications?
I've a somewhat unusual feature to implement and I don't know if it can be done without much effort.A WinForms application has a help file (well, not HTML help, but simply a HTML file with a reference sheet). When user presses F1 button a form with a web-browser control in it displays showing this file. The client wants this HTML file to contain buttons/checkboxes which a program should respond to.For example, if a user clicks a HTML button in the help file some value should appear in a textbox on the main form, etc. Is it altogether possible
View 1 RepliesI would like to specify a function to be called in my VB.Net 2005 WinForms project at midnight when the system date changes. Is this possible?I know I could do this by setting a timer by setting the interval to midnight minus the current time, then after the first tick, setting the interval to 24 hours. I was wondering if there was a cleaner, simpler way.
View 3 RepliesI am working on an application that has a Winforms and MVC3 Web component. We need to be able upload large files from the desktop to the web. I have tried the various VB 2010 WebClient and FTP FileUpload alternatives but continue to run into permission issues, even though the User-ID and password I supply are the same as those used by an FTP application that successfully copies files to the same MVC3 site. In my efforts to find alternative solutions, I have looked into using WCF which also seems complicated and problematic for this particular application.
The closest I have come to a solution utilizes HttpWebRequest on the Winforms application. The following VB 2010 and C# code (MVC3) successfully passes the Filename and File data to MVC3 (the InputStream contains the references and UrlEncode data, but the class containing the fields for this data are null. (I have also passed just the file data without the filename, and the uploaded file is successfully created from the InputStream - but the method variable is still null). Although I could pick apart the InputStream, I would prefer a more elegant alternative.
VB 2010 Winforms method:
Public Shared Sub FileUpload(ByVal Filepath As String)
Try
Dim Host = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("Host")
Dim url As String = Path.Combine(Host, "UI/FileUpload")
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(url)
request.Method = "POST"
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