Mycroft Holmes wrote: No they are vastly different, inside the firewall you have higher level of control Someone might temporarily disable the firewall to diagnose connection-problems. Or buy a PC with a rootkit. Mycroft Holmes wrote: If a user acquires a specialist peice of software who primary use is to circumvent the internal security of an app they are way outside the bounds of acceptable activity. They would need to be paid very well with a long term prospect of collecting. Provided you know which user it was, and that's assuming it's an employee. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss:

I was thinking of it this way... private void Form1\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if ((Thread.CurrentPrincipal.IsInRole("admin"))) // admin in this case should be a domain name. { tabPage4.Hide(); } else { MessageBox.Show("You must be a member of the Manager or Administrator's roles to view username and password information", "Insufficient Permissions", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation); } } But now instead of CurrentPrincipal.IsInRole put something that will read the domain name. Something of that sort. I'll appreciate any help Thank you

And neither is the article/source - all C#! Dave Binging is like googling, it just feels dirtier. Please take your VB.NET out of our nice case sensitive forum. Astonish us. Be exceptional. (Pete O'Hanlon) BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)

double.Parse is not equivalent to a double cast. One does a string-to-number conversion, the other does a number-to-number conversion. You can use Convert.ToDouble to do either, but I disagree that it's preferable for either scenario: use the mechanism that makes sense in context. A cast translates to a single IL opcode, not a whole method call, after all.

What the frack are you doing dr[0] + "" for? :confused: It's pointless. I suspect you just want to cast: if ( **(string)** dr[0] == input) and txtFirstName.Text = **(string)** dr[0] ;

Rather than asking for the code you should try doing some research, try typing your question into a google search. Any basic question will have been answered 1000s of times and you can use them to begin your research. Do not rely on this as your only source of knowledge, buy a book, it will give you some structured learning. When you have a specific problem with something then come back with the code that is giving you a problem and you'll find this site much more useful. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH