The Daily Six Pack: September 23, 2014

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: New In C Sharp 6 C# 6.0 What's New, Filip Ekberg Other Using WCF in .NET Native, Immo Landwerth Bing Developer Assistant Beta for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Gallery How much a European city has changed in…

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Clone VirtualBox VM’s Easily To Provide a Fresh Dev Environment

Clone VirtualBox VM's - Lately I have fallen in love again with VirtualBox. I have decided that using the same installation of SYSPRO on my local dev machine to do all customisations is inefficient. As time moves along and different customisations need to be done for different clients, my SYSPRO installation…

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Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

Visual Guard Summary NovalysI 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.

Well with Visual Guard from Novalys, the integration of security features is no longer a slog. Visual Guard makes this process very easy to do indeed. In a two part review, I looked at the functionality of Visual Guard. Below you will find a Visual Guard Summary which highlights areas of interest in my previous two detailed review posts (Part 1 & Part 2) of Visual Guard. (more…)

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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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