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Use Reflection to control winforms user permissions?

nzmike18-Mar-07 20:21

18-Mar-07 20:21

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone who knows more about Reflection or the internals of the framework than me can help me out on this one.

I'm working on a very large and complex winforms 2.0 in VB.Net 2.0. We will have quite a few different types of users (eg: Data admin, viewer, editor, business rules manager, etc) and I have been tasked with designing and implementing the security model that handles what each user can do. I intend to base it on our own in-house User, User Role and Permissions oracle 9i tables (ie: a pretty standard security model.)

Someone suggested that rather than having a call to some method like SecurityModule.CheckUserPermission() in every method I could Reflection to find out what method was currently invoked (how?!) and then check the user permission against a table (loaded into memory) which would contain the user's role and therefore whether they had a right to use that method. For example the AddNewEmployee() method might only be available to the "DataAdmin" and the "HRAdmin" roles and all others would not be allowed to execute the method - it would just give them an appropriate dialog.

So does anyone have any thoughts on how to do this? If the above idea is workable can someone point me in the right direction to get started? I've hardly ever used Reflection so am not sure how to go about designing this. Otherwise does anybody have any better ideas for a security model than having to place CheckUserPermission() calls all through this very large app?

TIA for any help/info/suggestions.

Mike

Re: Use Reflection to control winforms user permissions?

Pete O'Hanlon19-Mar-07 0:27

Pete O'Hanlon

19-Mar-07 0:27

To get the method you are in, you can use the System.Diagnostics.StackFrame class. You would use new StackFrame().GetMethod().Name. Note however, that it is going to be expensive to use reflection to retrieve permissions for users using Reflection based on the called method, and you are relying on developers remembering to put the necessary "plumbing" code into each method. (Either that, or you are going to be injecting code into every method - and that is a whole different can of worms).

I've done similar to this in the past, and used Extender Providers to control what is available to a user. Shameless plug here - this article http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/AutoEnableUI.asp[^] shows the basics of how to do this. Extending it to use your role model should be fairly trivial.

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Re: Use Reflection to control winforms user permissions?

nzmike19-Mar-07 0:48

nzmike

19-Mar-07 0:48

Thanks Pete - I really appreciate the reply... it gives me somewhere to start at least.

Cheers,

Mike

Get data items from a dataGrid

webHamlet15-Mar-07 19:39

webHamlet

15-Mar-07 19:39

If I have a populated dataGrid in visual c++, how can I get values from the dataGrid without going to the underlying dataSet.

Is there a way to use dataGrid->currentRowIndex to reference the row and then return the value from a given column.

Thanks!!

Kim

Re: Get data items from a dataGrid

Smart_Boy22-Mar-07 0:06

Smart_Boy

22-Mar-07 0:06

Create an object as datarow and the take all the data of ur datagrid column to that object and then refer it..

Regards,
Smart Boy
Mumbai,
(INDIA)

Menu coding [modified]

PreppyProgrammer15-Mar-07 14:40

PreppyProgrammer

15-Mar-07 14:40

Hi I am new to programming
Could someone tell me where i could find the simple coding statements for FileToolStripMenuItem_Click? Example i want to write code to "New" "Open"?

IS there a website that can teach me the functions for opening and functionality of menu's

Now this is what i put in =>
Private Sub MenuStrip1_ItemClicked(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItemClickedEventArgs) Handles MenuStrip1.ItemClicked
Edit()
Copy()
Please help thanks
Preppy programmer

-- modified at 21:44 Thursday 15th March, 2007

Re: Menu coding

giddy_guitarist22-Mar-07 21:42

giddy_guitarist

22-Mar-07 21:42

Maybe this could help you:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/ggaganesh/WorkingwithMenusinCSharp11282005004421AM/WorkingwithMenusinCSharp.aspx

change forms caption and border

hamid_m15-Mar-07 0:59

hamid_m

15-Mar-07 0:59

how can i change forms caption and borders?
i wanna have caption in new color and shape with custom title and position and new color for borders
many skin designers dont support rtl layout and i wanna design one myself

dynamic pictureBox creation

sarah_malik12-Mar-07 6:49

sarah_malik

12-Mar-07 6:49

Hi all,

I have a form that contains one button and one textbox, the textbox will take a number that will be passed to another form. I have done this successfully.
The thing is that I need the second form to create a number of pictureboxes = the number received from the first form.

Any ideas?

Re: dynamic pictureBox creation

JUNEYT12-Mar-07 8:08

JUNEYT

12-Mar-07 8:08

If you are dealing with VB.Net the sample approach can give so some insight how to do that. But you should consider defining location, size, back color information for a specific picturebox which you get it from an array. The sample will rename the each picturebox automatically. WTF | :WTF:

<code>

Dim GetNumber as New Int32 = PutHereHowManyYouWant
Dim I as Int32


For I = 1 to GetNumber

    Dim NewPicBox as New PictureBox

    NewPicBox.Name = "NewPicBox_" + I.toString
    NewPicBox.Size = New Size (PWidth(I), PHeight(I))
    NewPicBox.Location = New Point (PX(I), PY(I))
    NewPicBox.BackColor = color.From.ArgB(P1(I),P2(I),P3(I))

    Me.Controls.Add(NewPicBox)

    'Here you should create an addhandler and out eventhandler procedure
    to control each picture box.

    Next

</code>

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Re: dynamic pictureBox creation

sarah_malik12-Mar-07 8:14

sarah_malik

12-Mar-07 8:14

hi JUNEYT
actually I'm using C++.NET
thanks anyway,

Re: dynamic pictureBox creation

Dave Kreskowiak12-Mar-07 8:47

Dave Kreskowiak

12-Mar-07 8:47

Then ask in the Visual C++/CLI Forum[^].

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: dynamic pictureBox creation

sarah_malik12-Mar-07 8:58

sarah_malik

12-Mar-07 8:58

ok, I will.

Thanks all,

Custom Form problem...

e-laj10-Mar-07 1:43

e-laj

10-Mar-07 1:43

Hi,

I had some forms that i have created long time ago...

OK now i have created a special form that have three panels - the caption, footer and content. I want to use this form as a base form for my old forms.
The problem is that the sub-controls of the form will not be visible - i had to manualy asign the controls as child of the content panel (that is - adds the controls to the content panels's Controls collection).
Is there a way to make the designer put all controls of the form on its child controls collection, that is on the content panel controls collection.

Thanks, elaj

Best Freeware Utilities and why you like it

B S O D9-Mar-07 4:53

B S O D

9-Mar-07 4:53

Best Freeware Utilities

Unlocker http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker

CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com

Why?: On my 2002 HP XP Home I tried to uninstall Adobe 5 Reader. One .OCX file which was tied to Explorer would not delete. Unlocker usually will unlock the file so you can delete it.
Unable to do so it offered to delete it at the next start up.

After starting up with the file gone I ran CCleaner and it let me remove around 20 entries left by Adobe Reader 5. Now I was able to install the full Acrobat 5 cleanly.

Winaudit http://www.psdu506.demon.co.uk

Why because it is extremely fast. Tells you about your PC and what is going on and shows you error logs.
I have only used it since I got it in MaximumPC magazine disk recently, the URl is a more recent version,
but it has shown me a lot of things which are usually a pain to access.

MicroCenter tech support guy recommended Belarc Advisor, anyone use it?

Now if I can find good explanations for the Event and Error codes, I may be able to keep my PC
running without problems.

Anyone know of a program to compact the registry?

I am also looking for a File Manager to replace Explorer since it keeps ending abruptly, leaves icons for USB drives that have been removed and other weird stuff.

If You could only keep one utility program which would that be?
That would be something to recommend. Thanks.

BSOD lost C: and no recovery disks. No restore program to access D: Retired Ron

Re: Best Freeware Utilities and why you like it

led mike9-Mar-07 5:28

led mike

9-Mar-07 5:28

B S O D Profile:

Retired amature Visual Basic 6 programmer

I guess that explains why you think the "Windows Forms" forum is for discussing Utility Programs Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

led mike

Re: Best Freeware Utilities and why you like it

Marcus J. Smith9-Mar-07 8:42

Marcus J. Smith

9-Mar-07 8:42

He tried elsewhere and it didnt work out very well. D'Oh! | :doh:

_Cle^aKO

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problem with speakers in the system

Confuseed7-Mar-07 19:19

Confuseed

7-Mar-07 19:19

hi,

my speakers are working fine previously.But suddenly no sound is cominig?
Mine is windows 2000.
i have changes my mouse yesterday.

Plz give me a solution.

Thanks,
Vijaya.

Re: problem with speakers in the system

kubben8-Mar-07 3:37

kubben

8-Mar-07 3:37

Are the speakers plugged in? That is plugged into the computer and plugged into a power source?
Is your volumn turned off?

Those would be my best guesses.

Ben

Re: problem with speakers in the system

Dave Kreskowiak8-Mar-07 4:50

Dave Kreskowiak

8-Mar-07 4:50

Better yet, plugged into the correct port?

Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Re: problem with speakers in the system

Marcus J. Smith8-Mar-07 5:03

Marcus J. Smith

8-Mar-07 5:03

If the speakers are all plugged in correctly, you might want to try unplugging them completely from everything and plugging them back in. I have a problem with my speakers where it seems some static builds up and they dont work until I unplug the power adapter and and speaker to computer plug and plug them back in.

Also check for driver updates, it may be that the mouse change is interfering with the speakers.

Check for IRQ conflicts.

Auto pop-up a program when USB device connected

sowhat_827-Mar-07 17:50

sowhat_82

7-Mar-07 17:50

Hi all,

I need to be able to automatically run a program of my choice, say an .exe or a VC++ program, when a particular USB device is plugged in. Does anyone know how to do it, or know where i can find more information about this topic?

any help is greatly appreciated!

thanks and regards,

Alvin

Re: Auto pop-up a program when USB device connected

Dumb Programmer8-Mar-07 20:17

Dumb Programmer

8-Mar-07 20:17

I think you are using Windows environment. Assuming the same, this is how Windows OS works.

There is a service called Plug And Play (see services.msc) and you will see this service as running (generally) on computer systems. This is the service which keeps the track of any device plugged in/out from the PC. Either you create a windows service which checks these ports or you hook your application with system service to get the notification about any device added/removed from the system and accordingly execute the next steps.

Let me know if you need any further help on this.

Re: Auto pop-up a program when USB device connected

B S O D9-Mar-07 4:15

B S O D

9-Mar-07 4:15

I have Windows XP Home. I have an external Buffalo hard disk partitioned. When I "safely remove" the drives 2 partitions remain in Explorer and Defrag sees them too.
Other than the icons just being there I think they are messing up my being able to get Microsoft Updates even though I have a genuine Windows copy installed on my 2002
Hewelett Packard Pavilion 762n. Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks

BSOD lost C: and no recovery disks. No restore program to access D: Retired Ron

Re: Auto pop-up a program when USB device connected

B S O D9-Mar-07 3:58

B S O D

9-Mar-07 3:58

You are looking for "AutoPlay". Found in Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out 2nd edition. Book confusing suggest search feature at microsoft site.

BSOD lost C: and no recovery disks. No restore program to access D: Retired Ron

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