Add a runtime provider to the list of runtime provider.

Authenticate the user by the VGICredential

Authenticates a user by using the database or Visual Guard authentication mode.

Authenticates a user by using the specified authentication mode.

Authenticates a federated user

Changes the password of the user.

Changes the password question and answer of the user.

Check if the context of Visual Guard is valid.

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Generates a random password of the specified length.

Encodes a specified String into a byte array

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Indicates whether an anonymous sessions are supported by the current application.

Loads the permissions for an anonymous session.

Loads the permission for an anonymous session associated to the specified windows identity

Loads the permission of the CurrentPrincipal identity.

Loads the permissions of the given IIdentity object.

Loads the permission of the given WindowsIdentity IIdentity.

Loads the permissions of a user identified by the user name.

Loads the permissions of a user identified by the user name by using the specified authentication mode.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Resets a user's password to a new, automatically generated password.

Resets a user's password to a new, automatically generated password.

Resets a user's password to a new, automatically generated password.

Sets the security for the specified object.

Sets the security corresponding to the specified type for the specified object.

Unloads the roles and permissions granted to the current user.

Returns a String that represents the current Object.

Verifies that the supplied user name and password are valid.

Writes a new log entry as defined in the specified VGLogEntry object to the log stored in the default Visual Guard repository.

Gets or sets a boolean value indicating whether Visual Guard can use its automatic interception mechanism to intercept the instantication of Forms and automatically set the security to this instance.

gets the name of the application managed by Visual Guard

gets the type of the application managed by Visual Guard

Gets a VGAuthenticationState object representing the last authentication state.

Gets a VGAuthorizationState object representing the last authorization state.

Gets or sets the path of the Visual Guard configuration file.

Gets the default name of the file used as Visual Guard configuration file

Gets a value indicating whether the current membership provider is configured to allow users to reset their passwords.

Gets or sets a VGDebugOptions value indicating whether debug information should be included or not.

Gets or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether role granted to Windows Groups are included to the list of role of a user.

Gets a value indicating whether the log is enabled for the current repository.

Gets the number of invalid password or password-answer attempts allowed before the membership user is locked out.

Gets the minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.

Gets the minimum length required for a password.

Gets the number of minutes in which a maximum number of invalid password or password-answer attempts are allowed before the membership user is locked out.

Gets the message displayed to the user if the password does not match the validation rules.

Gets the regular expression used to evaluate a password.

Gets the VGIPrincipal representing the security context of current user on whose behalf the application is running. this property is null (Nothing) before calling the or methods or when the last authorization or authentication process has failed.

Gets or sets a value indicating if the principal of the current thread (CurrentPrincipal) must be replaced by the Visual Guard principal after an authentication.

Gets a value indicating whether the default membership provider requires the user to answer a password question for password reset and retrieval.

Gets a value indicating whether the repository is configured to require a unique e-mail address for each user name.

Gets the current VGSecurityRuntime instance used by the security manager

Gets or sets a value indicating if the Visual Guard security is enabled.

Gets an object that can be used to synchronize access to the VGSecurityManager.

Gets or sets the level of the Visual Guard trace.

Gets or sets the TraceListener object used to trace Visual Guard messages.

Gets or sets a boolean value indicating if the statistics of credential must be updated or not.

Allows to check if the version of the repository permissions is compatible with the version of the application.

Occurs when the VGSecurityRuntime object assigned by default to the security manager is initialized.

Occurs before the permissions are loaded and allows filtering the list of user's groups for contextual group selection.

Occurs before a log entries is written in a repository.

Occurs before the permissions are loaded and allows filtering the list of user's roles.

Occurs when Visual Guard loads security actions and a type are unknown or when Visual Guard sets the security of an object and an exception occurs.

Occurs after the security permissions are loaded.

Occurs when the current user is signed out.

Occurs when a password is changed or is reset.