Membership System

[garyf]

Hi All
I want to use the Membership, roles and profiles system of ASP.NET in Winforms. Does anyone know of a step-by-step example of how this is done?
TIA
Gary

 

[Arg81]

winForms is VB.net, webForms is ASP.net.

ASP.net uses membership and roles, VB.net doesn't (I don't think) - you can use database authentication or active directory.

 

[JohnH]

Desktop applications can also use the already present Windows authentication with the WindowsPrincipal and WindowsIdentity classes from System.Security.Principal namespace.

 

[Arg81]

yep - I was just editing my post with that (lol!)

to get the current logged on user;

Dim s As New Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal(System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent)