A while back I had a customer that wanted to host a Dot Net web site on one
of my servers.  We went ahead and installed v1.1, the customer was happy and
didn't seem to have any problems.  Then we had a second customer who wanted
Dot Net on their web site and we found that the two ...

*Without* using a deployment/setup project, is there a graceful way
of stopping a .NET 2 app. at start of execution on a .NET 1.1 fcl system?
(or is it best just ot let the CLR (or PE .. CLR invoker) inform you ?
- Mitch

I'm in the process of trying to create a template ASP.NET 2.0 web site for
all the developers in my group. I'd like to encrypt the connection strings
for commonly used databases and put them in every developer's machine.config
file. However, I'm not sure the best encryption to ...

Just curious why people freak out about not having SSL and/or having a SQL
Server port 1433 open.
If I do the following why do I care about SSL or port 1433?
1.  40 character passwords for all SQL accounts

I've built a .net 2.0 Windows Service that accesses a Registry key shortly
after startup.
On one XP Pro SP2 I build the service and referenced libs, deploys the
servie, starts it up, and it runs fine.

i am writing a code for export data to excel, it is working smooth on
windows 2000 platform.
After I upload to windows 2003 server, FileInfo object always has problem:
the FileInfo object can't access and always return "Access is denied"

 I'm trying to understand how to use CAS, and found something strange. I'm
trying to deny my program of a few permissions to see what happens. I created
a small program that creates the file c:\hello.txt and exits:
[assembly: FileIOPermission(SecurityAction.RequestRefuse,

Security problem running unmanaged code (.ocx control) in a windows from
control hosted in IE6
Hi,
I have design a  windows from control which contain a .OCX in one of its

So I have the following situation:
0. I have a web app in an intranet setting.
1. I have a .Net 2.0 user control that i want to embed/host in IE.
2. It relies on a 3rd-party COM dll.

Is there a tutorial to create custom permissions and deploy/import it in
Visual Studio IDE
source

I have set-up my web app to use ASP.NET 2.0 membership and roles. It
works OK on my local Windows XP Professional PC but when I upload the
site to our Windows 2003 development server it doesn't. The local and
development server web sites both point to the same SQL Server 2005

Am trying to implement some security on my program.  This program will
be run on a number of machines across the globe.  I have created a
number of user groups which contain the access priveleges of the
windows users but as they are not builtin groups I cannot do as below!

The following code works fine in VS2003 (.Net 1.1).  However, in VS2005 (.Net
2.0) it throws a "Bad Data" exception on the decrypt line!
(Although this example may seem pointless, it is just the pertinant lines
from larger source code. It was consolidated to highlight the error).

Reposting here as no reply on the remoting NG or on the remoting forum: also
it's not specifically related to remoting as I get exactly the same result
when connecting to a WebService hosted in IIS.
Original post is here:

I would like to create a class similar to RSA and MD5 CryptoServiceProvider.
I need to call CryptAcquireContext in the .ctor and call CryptCreateHash,
CryptHashData, CryptDeriveKey, CryptDecrypt, CryptEncrypt etc
In the .ctor RSA and MD5 CryptoServiceProvider and other classes ...