passing values from a web page into windows form application

Hi guys,

How can I pass session/application values from a web page (ASP or
ASP.NET) that is on a host company, into my cliente application?

So I can hide menus based on access permisions once the user makes the
log in in the web page by the application.

I'm using VB.NET with Web Control COM

Thank you

Bruno Alexandre
(Sintra, PORTUGAL)Hi Bruno,

You could post the values to a page from your site containing a vb6
component. The vb6 component would run in-process and with a reference to
the 'Microsoft Active Server Pages Object Library' you could then query the
session and application variables ASPTypeLibrary.Session and
ASPTypeLibrary.Application.
I have a sample program which isfreely available from a demonstration I did
on this a while back available at
http://www.crainiate.net/downloads/vb6wsdemo.zip

This component would then need to notify your application across process's,
there are a number of ways of doing this.

Your client would however need to run IIS, so this solution is limited to
windows2000 or windowsXP.

Kind regards,
James

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"Bruno Alexandre" <bruno.alexandre@.filtrarte.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guys,
> How can I pass session/application values from a web page (ASP or
> ASP.NET) that is on a host company, into my cliente application?
> So I can hide menus based on access permisions once the user makes the
> log in in the web page by the application.
> I'm using VB.NET with Web Control COM
>
> Thank you
> Bruno Alexandre
> (Sintra, PORTUGAL)

Passport authentication

The company I work in is switching to ASP.NET 2.0. We have seen that there
is built-in support for Microsoft Passport authentication and we're
considering it as an optional way of authenticating users of our web
product. I was unable to find on Microsoft site any information regarding
fees for using it. Is it free of charge or a company that uses Microsoft
Passport authentication in their product must pay some fee to Microsoft?
Best regards
Lukasz GlazYou can learn a little more from:
http://www.devx.com/security/Article/17483
but it is a hosted service which Microsoft sells. Personally, I think
Passport has been a failure for Microsoft and is only useful to it on it's
own sites (hotmail/msn/...). Here's an entry from wiki
"Having failed to gain market acceptance, Microsoft has recently stated they
will stop usage of Passport for entities outside of its own operations.
Despite media reports that Microsoft is phasing out the technology,
Microsoft rolled out a major update to the Passport service in May, 200"
So I'm not even sure if you can still buy it as a service...
Karl
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"Lukasz Glaz" <lglaz at dantek com pl> wrote in message
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> The company I work in is switching to ASP.NET 2.0. We have seen that there
> is built-in support for Microsoft Passport authentication and we're
> considering it as an optional way of authenticating users of our web
> product. I was unable to find on Microsoft site any information regarding
> fees for using it. Is it free of charge or a company that uses Microsoft
> Passport authentication in their product must pay some fee to Microsoft?
> Best regards
> Lukasz Glaz
>

Passport authentication

The company I work in is switching to ASP.NET 2.0. We have seen that there
is built-in support for Microsoft Passport authentication and we're
considering it as an optional way of authenticating users of our web
product. I was unable to find on Microsoft site any information regarding
fees for using it. Is it free of charge or a company that uses Microsoft
Passport authentication in their product must pay some fee to Microsoft?

Best regards
Lukasz GlazYou can learn a little more from:
http://www.devx.com/security/Article/17483

but it is a hosted service which Microsoft sells. Personally, I think
Passport has been a failure for Microsoft and is only useful to it on it's
own sites (hotmail/msn/...). Here's an entry from wiki

"Having failed to gain market acceptance, Microsoft has recently stated they
will stop usage of Passport for entities outside of its own operations.
Despite media reports that Microsoft is phasing out the technology,
Microsoft rolled out a major update to the Passport service in May, 200"

So I'm not even sure if you can still buy it as a service...

Karl
--
http://www.openmymind.net/

"Lukasz Glaz" <lglaz at dantek com pl> wrote in message
news:esN51OuMGHA.3496@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> The company I work in is switching to ASP.NET 2.0. We have seen that there
> is built-in support for Microsoft Passport authentication and we're
> considering it as an optional way of authenticating users of our web
> product. I was unable to find on Microsoft site any information regarding
> fees for using it. Is it free of charge or a company that uses Microsoft
> Passport authentication in their product must pay some fee to Microsoft?
> Best regards
> Lukasz Glaz