Integrating New Winform Applications

Visual Guard allows you to integrate Winform applications and set permissions for accessing the integrated application.

Note:

Visual Guard must be integrated with the selected application before this wizard can be run. For WCF services you must specify the type of application hosting the service.

To add a new WinForm application follow the steps below:

Access the Application Creation Wizard using the path Repository > New Application

The Application Creation Wizard will be displayed.

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Select the Winform, WPF, Console, Windows Service option (A).

The wizard will automatically walk you through the application integration.

Click

to access the next screen and indicate whether the Visual Guard runtime is already integrated in the system.

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Option (B) will be selected by default. Select option (A) to move to the next step.

The Visual Guard Runtime should be integrated in the application to move to the next step. Click here for more information regarding integrating the Visual Guard runtime.

Click

to access the next screen and specify the main assembly of the application that will act as an entry point.

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Select the path where the application is being stored by clicking

(A).

The browsing screen will be displayed as shown below.

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You can select only assemblies having extensions .dll or .exe.

Select the script language in which you want to edit the script associated to actions. By default the application's language will be detected automatically as shown below.

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Click

to access the next screen and specify the default options of the application.

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The options will be available for selection Allow anonymous sessions, Enable default role, and Generate Visual Guard configuration files. You can select any one or all of the options.

After selecting the appropriate options click

to finish the wizard. The application will be integrated and displayed as shown below.

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When this option is enabled, the user can access your application without providing credentials. In this case, Visual Guard will automatically grant the anonymous role to the user.

This option allows you to automatically grant a default role during the creation of a new account in the selected repository.

This option allows you to generate Visual Guard configuration files in the directory of the assembly. These configuration files contain settings that will enable your application to access this repository.