The Daily Six Pack: August 18, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Azure Backup Introduction to Azure Backup, Viswanath Tata Other 12 predictions for the future of programming, Peter Wayner Convert Seconds to Hour : Minute : Seconds Format, Pinal Dave Team Foundation Server Training, Ahmed Salijee I was annoyed by…

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The Daily Six Pack: August 6, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Investigate Visual Studio Rebuilding How to investigate Rebuilding in Visual Studio when nothing has changed, Kirill Osenkov Other Windows Azure SDK for .NET – 2.4, MS Downloads Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 now available, Charles Sterling…

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The Daily Six Pack: July 30, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Swift Introduction Part 2 An Introduction to Swift: Part 2, Michael Musallam Other Integrating “News” in the VS IDE … a cool extension update!, Willy-P. Schaub What is the difference between Build and Rebuild in Visual Studio?, Dean…

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Azure Databases – Restore Local Database To Azure

Azure Databases – What do you need to do if you have a local database and you want to deploy it to Azure? I saw while researching for this article that there were a few ways to do this.

Looking for something else? Try these links instead:

The method I’m going to show you now, is a nice quick and easy method.  (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: April 22, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio Installer Projects Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension, Tony Goodhew Other The Binary Numeral System, Sean Sexton Sharing code across platforms, Immo Landwerth How to access an Azure Website with the local IIS Manager, Code…

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The Daily Six Pack: February 12, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Azure Dev Virtual Machine Create a Dev Virtual Machine in Windows Azure, Bill Wilder Other New Mac OS X Malware Steals Your Bitcoins, Dave Smith Join Thynk Software, marlongrech Microsoft's Data Direction: the Cloud,…

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The Daily Six Pack: February 7, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio Extension Visual Studio Extensions - from Add-in to VSPackage, Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter Other Learning SSIS – Where Do I Start? – Notes from the Field #014, Pinal Dave January Optional Updates for Windows…

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The Daily Six Pack: August 12, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Twitter Two Factor Authentication Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication System, Bruce Schneier Other Building apps with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview in Visual Studio 2012, The .NET Team XAML Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2013, Visual…

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Securing Your Application With Visual Guard – Part 2 (Dive Deeper)

Dynamic Permissions
Document Generation
Event Viewer
Visual Guard Authentication
Visual Guard Groups
Visual Guard Server
Check Security Actions
Managing Identity Federation With Visual Guard
Deploying The Visual Guard Repository
Final Thoughts

In my previous article, Securing Your Application With Visual Guard – Part 1, we were introduced to some basic features of this fantastic product. In this post I will dive a little deeper and get to grips with some of the more advanced features of Visual Guard. (more…)

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Securing Your Application With Visual Guard – Part 1

Visual Guard Features
Installation
Start Visual Guard WinConsole and create a Repository
Integrate Visual Guard Runtime with your Application
Connecting to your Repository / Set up your Application
Creating a User
Edit Password Policy

I think any developer will agree with me that adding security features to an application can be an absolute pain. This is especially true if you don’t have a set template or module that you can slot into your application.

Novalys Visual Guard

Well with Novalys Visual Guard, the integration of security features is no longer a slog. Visual Guard makes this process very easy to do indeed. In this post we will look at using Visual Guard with a plain simple Windows Forms Application, but Visual Guard can be integrated with .NET 2.0 and above, C#, vb.net, asp.net, Winforms, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, MVC3, MVC4, Windows Azure, PowerBuilder 8 and above, Microsoft Sharepoint and any technologies Supporting HTTP Requests (Java, C++…).

I have to admit that while much of the integration processes should be quite straight forward for most developers, the extensive help files and Developer’s Guide do warrant a read though in order to grasp some of the more advanced features of Visual Guard. (more…)

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