I've written a custom membership provider which works with tables in
my ms sql database. This works great locally, but as soon as I run the
site on the live (shared) server, I get the following error message:
Parser Error Message: Attempt to access the method failed.

I have read somewhere that Basic Authentication should be avoided
because it sends passwords in clear text and that Integrated Windows
Authentication only works with Internet Explorer on a Windows
computer. I have a website in IIS with only Integrated Windows

I'm a bit new to both managing a server and using visual studio pro 2005.
...hopefully, I'll describe the question properly and hopefully this is the
correct newsgroup.
I recently went from the free express version of visual web developer to the

Server Error in '/FifthValley' Application.
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Failed to access IIS metabase.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the

I have read the other posts here on this subject but I am still unsure of
the best way to approach my situation.
I am new to web security and web programming in general.
I have a web service and  a thick client and a Standalone Root certificate

Hello.  Sorry if this is a novice question but can anyone show or point me
to some code in having windows authentication to sql server for an asp.net
application where it's not using just one generic windows account?  I need
to assign individual windows logins to our users (basic ...

Wonder if you could help me out with some security issues I'm having
installing my code on a client's network.
Here's the setup. We've got 2 servers, the first (DC) is a Win2k3 Std
machine running as a domain controller, with Active Directory, etc - and IIS6.

Is there a way to detect in asp.net if images are hot-linked from another
websites? I intend to create a default image and serve that image instead of
the image requested from another website?
Kind Regards

Greetings All,
Being a little less familiar with accessing AD, can someone tell me the best
way to obtain an AD user record (profile).  Ultimately I would like to simply
obtain the manager that has been assigned to a specific user.

I am developing an webapplication,which is public user registration
system,where i want to get all logged in users information on administrator
side.Can you please give me an possible solution.
Regards

I have a situation where I have to create an entry in the membership
database (std. .NET 2.0 asp.net DB). This entry is a new Application in the
aspnet_Applications table, but as I do not want to do that directly into the
table, what api-object is actually presenting this ...

I have a custom IPrincipal class that I setup and put into Context.User
in the Application_AuthenticateRequest, all works fine.
However when I check the HttpContext.Current.User in a page my Custom
IPrincipal has been overwritten by the RolePrincipal class, how do I

Hi;
First off, if you have not read Dominick Baier's book yet - GO READ IT
NOW. That is the book I wish I had read first - would have saved me
boatloads of time.

Hi;
I know this was answered before but with the MS Web interface to the
groups down I can't find my saved postings so I have to ask again.
We are going to try and figure out Partial Trust again. What is the

Hi;
I can call both:
using (DirectorySearcher objSearcher = new DirectorySearcher())    {
    return (string) objSearcher.SearchRoot.Properties["name"].Value;