Do you need to decrypt an app.config file? There are lots of directions explaining the process if you’re dealing with a web application, but if you’re dealing with a windows app or a service of some sort, you don’t have a web.config… all you have is an app.config. The process isn’t all that different.
Here’s what an encrypted app.config “appSettings” section might look like. (more…)
Recently, I’ve been working on a project that relies on a backend business object layer. The business object (BO) layer, requires authentication in order to be used. For most of the systems, this is okay, but my project is to be used by end users. We don’t need to authenticate the users… we need to authenticate the system.
This is easy enough using the CustomPrincipal object in Rocky Lhotka’s CSLA framework (which is also being used). We simply create the CustomPrincipal and add that to the ApplicationContext. (more…)
