Hello all. I'm working on a project for a community college which
allows the Alumni to update their contact information over the web. We
would like to mail the Alumni a physical letter which has the link to
the web form that collects the data. The Alumni then will enter in

Im setting up a win32 based client/server aplication in C#. (Not a
webservice)
The server (a pc) must perfrom an action when the client (pc or pocket
pc device) sends it a message via TCP/IP communication.

 I am deploying my security policy (.NET 2.0) via
an .msi. Problem is it seems I have to run it twice to
get the policy changes to take effect. I have tried giving
it several minutes to run and I have tried rebooting, but

I am trying to connect & exchange data with IMAP server using SSL.
IMAP has command for logging in. Ex:
A100 LOGIN "abc" "agc"
I am using following code to do this...

I'm running a ASP.NET application using the anonimous user. (ASPNET)
I don't want the user to log in and I don't want to give any more rights to
the ASPNET user either. So I thought of impersonating a local user just for
the duration of a single method.

I am reading the Event Log from application , its working fine when connects
to local coputers event log but giving the following message instead of the
actual error message when connecting to remote server's event log
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How secure is it to use System.Environment.UserName for login purposes.
 We have an Active Directory so I was thinking to just use UserName
instead of prompting for a username and password and having to
authenticate myself.

Would someone from Microsoft please explain what scenario required the
IdentityReference class in .NET 2.0 to be declared with an internal
constructor. I have serveral use cases that would benefit extensively from a
custom identity reference. However, that's not currently ...

I am working on signing and encrypting XML file with certificate in smart
card. The following code I used on .net 1.1, it works fine
  CspParameters CSPParam = new CspParameters();
  CSPParam.KeyContainerName = "MY";

hello i am using the enterprise library, and trying to resolve this issue on
building:
Error 3 Assembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly
'Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Security.Cryptography' does not have

Here is the scenario  -
I have priavte key stored on a Smart Card device on the client end. On the
server end the corresponding certificate is stored in the AD.
How do I retrive the relevant public Key from the certificate stored in AD?

I am looking into deploying a ClickOnce application and am reading all these
things about how you need a certificate to make ClickOnce work.
After looking around, I found that I can use a utility called MakeCert.exe
to make my own certificate but then the documentation says that ...

Im developing a c# application and i want to access properties like the name
of the person. example:
DOMAIN\jsmith - I want to Access "John Smith" the same way Share Point does
for the its users.

i need to implement some data encription in my app. the trick is that i
need the app to be able to decrypt but not encrypt that data. this is
needed to make sure that data the app needs, comes from the trusted
source. the app cannot be able to reproduce encription.

I am trying to find out that how do I get the class X509Certificate2?
I have .net framework 1.1 with me. When I look at
System.Security.Cryptography the only class available to me for Certificates
is X509Certificate.