Traditionally, I've used windows authentication with a web server on an
Active directory domain.  IIS authenticated users on AD.  However to do this,
a window popped up and users entered information in that.
However, I'd like to instead make an asp.net form that authenticated via

On Running a managed exe i get the following error :
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type
initializer for 'WSRMGUI.Sample.WS
RMGUIHandler' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileLoadException:

What is the difference between
Page.User.Identity.Name
and
WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name

Well, after reading all of the posts in here, I'm still not quite sure
if what I would like is possible. Here's my scenario:
IIS5 (or 6 if I have to) with a large website. Within that website are
different .NET applications and regular htm applications in their

Hello all,
Trying to make a login page to a website. However I don't the user to be
able to set a password, I want to control the password for everbody, and
change it weekly. Any way, I have found alot of docs on Form Authentication

I want an asp.net buttonclick_onserver event to run a process as a
given domain user on the server. What is the easiest way to do this.
For some reason "LogonUser" fails with "Unknown user or password"
LocalMachine/Administrator also failed.

 I have a webforms application which uses Forms Authentication.
There are two webforms, mainform.aspx which retrieves data from a data.aspx
webpage(the data.aspx page is set via a property on a control on
mainform.aspx). The data.aspx serializes an xml file, which is used by the

I was looking a way to have the Windows and Forms Authentication on the same
site, and I found a Paul Wilson's article on MSDN.
I've downloaded the code, and I'm trying to make it work. But I got some
problems..., it works well with Windows Authentication, but when it comes

I've been working on a web part that will remind a user how many days
they have until their password expires. I strong named it and created a
custom security policy to allow it to live in the bin rather than the
GAC. After many painful iterations with configuring code access levels

When a user logs on to an application the new FormsAuthenticationTicket is
created with a userdata field which I can populate with anything useful I
might want. A cookie is created with an encrypted hash of the ticket.
Is it possible to update the ticket's userdata field once the ...

I have disabled "Anonymous Access" & enabled "Integrated Windows
Authentication" on the web server for my ASP.NET application. My
Web.config file has the following entries:
<authentication mode="Windows" />

   I'm new to .net. I need some info on serialization.
What is serialization? Why do we need it? Why objects need to be serialized
if they need to be stored in session or viewstate?

   The problem or error which I am getting while running my web application is as given below:
Security Exception
Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact ...

I have an app where im using FormsAuthenticaton, and doing my own
authentication against a users table in my db. I have no problem actually
getting the authentication to work as i want. When the user logs in though,
it is also pulling out a logical bitmapped set of roles that the ...

Using the first version of VisualStudio.NET and, I believe, IIS 5 (the
one that comes with Server 2000) when I launch the ASP.NET application
wizard and DON'T want to use localhost, what do I do?  The process just
errors or goes into a process that never completes or times out.  I