I am no expert on this but my understanding of the Guest account is that it is intended for unauthenticated access to the system. Generally Microsoft recommends disabeling this account. I would consider having the guest account open on a public information computer, that should be available to everyone and that does not access resources that are not completely public. For exampel, a terminal in a library from wich you can access the Internet. I have on occasion activated the Guest account to enable file sharing over a network when I could find no other way to get two Windows computers to access each other. But then I turned it of as soon as I was done. In no other circumstance would I consider using the Guest account for anything. A limited user account on the other hand is intended to be personal or maybe role-specific, thus authenticated (linked to a known person or job function), and preferably having a password attached to it. There is a clear difference in the specific limitations for the group Guests and the group Users (Guest account belongs to Guests, most other accounts belong to Users). If you check the descriptions of these two groups you get a clearer picture of the default settings.

Carolina Berglund Systemdeveloper, Headlight, Sweden.

Tim Kohler wrote:

First of all, how can a private person understand that choice anyway? Are you suggesting that joe blow could pick a better security than what would be default in Windows? Doubtful at best.

Certainly, if someone can make a better product, Joe could choose it. He could choose wrong too, but the point is it's his choice. Additionally, Joe should have the opportunity to choose a different (maybe less secure) product that suits him better for some reason niether of us would consider important. Giving people choices makes them think for themselves, and that is the most important part of any form of security. Different security products will also give malicious forces on the Net a challange!

Tim Kohler wrote:

I believe we should just pick out a large European company and start similar proceeding here in the states, just to make a point of how silly this is.

Go ahead, we're used to this. Typical American attitude to think you're in focus - as I said earlier; this can happen to any company, and it does! Microsoft is not first and not alone! Microsoft is a GLOBAL company, not an American.

Carolina Berglund Consultant, systemdeveloper and architect.

The EU comissioners are a part of a democratic structure, protecting people and companies present in the EU - this includes Microsoft! The main goal here is to make sure that it is possible to create alternatives to the default security provided in the OS - and to make it easy enough for a private person to make an active choiice. If Micrsoft already has an open attitude on this, there is no problem! The main focus of EU is competetive markets. They have several times forbidden the merging of major companies in many areas, deaming it would create too dominant actors on the respective markets, thus hindering free trade and creating oligopoly (not monopoly, but close).

Carolina Berglund Consultant, systemdeveloper and architect.

Well then, now we're on the same page :) Too bad this functionality is not provided for web controls. :sigh: As I search my memory I am no longer certain I've worked with events in web user controls before, though I have so extensively in windows controls. I just assumed there was no difference in the design environment... One more item on the wish list then :-D

Carolina Berglund Consultant, systemdeveloper and architect.

Sure, no problem. I've cleared out some of the code that references my business logic class, since you dont have access to it. This includes a public property for assigning an instance of my BL-class to the control, and this property shows up in the properties window in design mode when this control is included in a web page. This is the source for one of my ascx pages: <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="EducationEdit.ascx.cs" Inherits="cv_EducationEdit" %>

Typ

Utbildning

Institut

Datum

- - -

Visa vid export

And this is the corresponding code-behind (.cs): using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; public partial class cv_Educat

Yes... I'm not noob on this, and I have already entered all code I need to make this [ie using the events I need] work, I just want to know why the user-friendly way to do it is unavailable for my custom controls. Any regular control in the framework has the events button in the Properties pane, so I'm sure there is nothing wrong with my installation or with the way I use the environment. There must be something missing in the code, but I can't find any reference to what is needed to get a custom web control to display the events pane in design mode.

It's in design view I miss this feature

Yeah, this is what I am missing, but the problem is I don't have the events symbol mentioned in point 2...

Carolina Berglund Consultant, systemdeveloper and architect.

Hi! I am getting up to speed working with web development in vs 2005 and I'm missing a feature in the VS environment. When working in design mode with a page, I want to have easy access to create delegates for any event available in my custom server controls, but I can not find anything of the kind. (I also want easy navigation to the code once I've implemented it.) The events for any regular (predefined) web control are available as expected, but not the ones I define in my own controls. I get the feeling I'm missing something in my code, since I can find no way to get the controls to appear in the Toolbox either. I've created the controls using Add new Item, choosing the Web User Control template. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong? Or this this a (undocumented) feature (read: bug) in the new development environment?

Carolina Berglund
Consultant, systemdeveloper and architect.

I'm not sure what the CreateProcess API is. If you have a nice little component that might help, I'd be very glad to try it out! Please send it to my email :-D If you understand my dilemma, would you mind trying to explain to me how this process works/should work? Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

Hi! I am using shell to start ftp and send a few commands to a server, resulting in a file being retreived. I then process the file locally. I need to do this with a group of files, so i'm running this in a loop and this gets me into trouble. All of a sudden, ftp commands show up in the document, since the processing of one file conicides with the retreival of another. I believe that the source of my problems is that shell runs asynchronously. MS states that it does this *by default*. How can I change this default? Or is there some smart work-around I haven't thought of? I already use a loop with DoEvents(), to give the ftp process time to get started before I send any commands to it, and I have a control to ensure that only one ftp process is running at a time (static variable in the procedure). Any ideas on how to solve this? Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

Hi! Thanks :) I've managed to create a messagebox component but I immediately ran in to further problems: If I want to prompt the user for confirmation or input, how do I get the value back to the server? As you pointed out I'll be needing to use scripting inside the component, but I still can't figure out how to get the values back from the client immidiately. I realise you are not experienced in this (nor am I), but I thought I might as well elaborate on my thread so that maybe someone else can supply more information :) Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

Hi! I really need to find a simple way to produce a messagebox, similar to that one would use in a standard windows application before deleting items, saving och closing or whatever. I used to do this in ASP by using JavaScript on the client (alert...) but I thought I would not have to bother with that now. I've been searching through the SDK several times and still can't find anything usefull. The MessageBox I found seems to work only in Windows applications, not in browsers. Has anyone seen, heard or done anything that might help me? Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

Maybe this kind of access must be run in its own process. The IUSR_ account is only allowed to run InProc. To access process that require OutOfProc you must use an account with such previleges. One way is to create a com-component, add it to the MTS and assign it to run under a specified user account, and then add that account to the security settings in DCom Config Manager (which you start from Start --> Run "DCOMCNFG"). Be sure to test this in a labb environment: I had some problems when I tested this for reaching Excel functionallity from IIS. Knowledgebase article Q198432 at MS' site has more info about this. Good Luck! Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

If you are using Windows, the component to use is cdonts. You can create a new mail object with the line set mail = server.createobject("cdonts.newmail") Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

Hi:-O ! Does anyone know how I can get hold of the domain and user account of the client, after authentication with Windows mode has been completed? I would like to use them to get Full Name for the user from the PDC, and also the Email-address from our Exchangeserver. Any tips on these topics are greatly appreciated! Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

In Access, first delete the rows, then switch to design mode, change the datatype of the autonumber field to whatever, save the table. Change back and save again!. This can only be done on an empty table (I think), and I am not sure you can do it externally. If it is possible you would need to drop and then create the table using SQL syntax. Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden

We've had the Beta1 version of VS.NET installed for some time and yesterday I got the time to upgrade to the Candidate Release version. I started with uninstalling the old version, but then I fucked it up a bit since I tried doing the installation remotely, through Windows Terminal Server. I finally managed to install the CR on the server late in the afternoon. I started a few projects and they seemed to load correctly. Today as I tried to run the latest project I've been working on (ASP.NET Web application) , it claims it can not find System.Web, or one of its dependencies. I checked through the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder under winnt... and found that it had a subfolder for each framework version. When comparing the project files under the new version with those under the old version, I found that some files were missing in the new version, probably they should be created when the project is started. I tried creating a new Web Application and start it. it ran without problems. When comparing again the temporary files in these three projects, i noticed that wheras the old version of my project had a file called __fusion__.info, both new projects had __AssemblyInfo__.ini instead. (I found it in the most "leafed" folder, the most nested folder under each project.) I hope you are able to help me, I would like to learn how to use old projects. Consultant, system/web developer. IMS Consulting AB, Sweden