Posts Tagged ‘Windows’

HOW TO: Use a Custom Membership Provider, Custom Membership User and Role-Provider with a WCF Service hosted inside a Windows Service.

Friday, August 14, 2009 12:19 No Comments

I have written a small HOW TO on how to use a Customer Membership Provider, a Custom Role-Provider and a Custom Membership User for username/password authentication in a WCF Service that is hosted in a Windows Service. The HOW TO includes a sample implementation of these providers. It also includes a complete Visual Studio Project [...]

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Prevent starting multiple instances of a Windows Forms application.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:52 No Comments

There are situations where you do not want a user to start multiple instances of the same Windows Forms application more then once. There are solutions for this out there, that require writing some file and locking it (sort of File Share Witness thingy) and solution that check the running processes on the machine. (What [...]

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Marcus Murray’s ‘Secret Windows Password’ Explained… It’s not.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:13 2 Comments

During TechEd 2008 Marcus Murray (http://truesecurity.se/blogs/murray/default.aspx) asked the audiance if they were aware of a ‘secret backdoor password’ in Windows. Although half of the audiance acknowledged this, the ‘demo’ following the statement had nothing to do with a ‘backdoor password’ in Windows (Vista or XP). What he showed was that, if you (1) can gain [...]

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The wait is over… Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is here.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 21:44 No Comments

Without further adue, here it is; x64 (64bit)   -   x86 (32bit)  Well, these links are for Windows Vista in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. But I’m sure the other languages will follow shortly. At first, it will be available as a download, in April or a little later, it will be available through Windows Update. (Want [...]

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