I am using .net 2.0 on windows xp (sp2). I wrote following code to import
the certificate into my store name in local machine location:
X509Store myStore = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);
myStore.Open(OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly | OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

I've got an app I need to modifiy that's written in C# VS2005/.NET 2.0 which
is dsigned to ONLY run when the logged in user has administrator privileges.
At one point it needs to delete a HKLM\Software\... registry value if it
has, in fact, created it. So there is a method that ...

I have a VB.Net Windows form based user authentication system. The form
authenticates the user info against a server through Remoting that is hosted
by IIS. The authentication process runs well all the time. Once the
authentication is done, I set up my customized identity and ...

Hello, i have created a vb.net 2003 program and when i create an EXE
file i want to add a license key so that nobody whitout that key can
install that programme, can anybody help me with that
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I asked this in the Vista dev support newsgroup but thought I might have
better luck here:
I've got a .Net 2.0 WinForms app that I've written for XP/2003. One of
things it does is use the OpenRemoteBaseKey on the RegistryKey class to

On a new computer with Windows XP, Microsoft Office, and all updates
installed, my Windows Firewall gives off a false, I hope, warning every day
5-6 times.  It says the Windows Firewall is off and I may be unprotected, but
by the time I open the Security Center, Windows Firewall ...

I'd like to update the DACL of a directory on either a local or remote
machine. When I use the UNC directory path (e.g., "\\machine\share\...") on
an XP, SetAccessControl will wipe out the inherited ACEs. If I use a plain
directory path (e.g., "C:\directory\..."), the API works ...

When I configure a VPN connection on W-XP it connects automatically to the
server when i launch my browser whehter i want vpn or not. How can I stop the
automatic connection so that vpn only starts manually?
I must have set something to enable automatic connection but i don't know ...

I have made a small app that resides on a server share. It needs to draw
some data from a SQL Server database that resides on yet another server. And
the app should be possible to run from client computers.
When we run it from clients we get the following error: "Request for the

The following c# code:
[...]
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(myClassType));
StringReader reader = new StringReader(tmpstring);

Hi! Please point me to the correct discussion if I am off base.
We are beta testing a new Dot Net Framework application that allows us to
upload documents of different file types for online storage with each of our
transactions. We can easily drag and drop email attachments to ...

I'm trying this out usig ASP 2.0.
The public key part works ok but the private key request fails.
       CspParameters cspParams = new CspParameters();
       cspParams.Flags = CspProviderFlags.UseMachineKeyStore;

I'm developing an app that will access secret info from a SQL Server db.  
The server component that accesses the db will be hosted on the same machine
as the db.  Client components will connect to the server component to
retrieve the secret.

Hello everybody, I'm using visual studio .net 1.1 for my applications.
Source codes are located on a lan server. Until last week I was able to
compile and run mi applications according to the policy I'd defined in
control panel / administrative tools / .net configuration (a full ...

I create a windows application and a web application (.NET 2.0). The
windows and web application uses the same Business Logic Layer and Data
Access Layer. How can I secure the windows and web application with the
same code?