The VGSecurityManager type exposes the following members.

Methods

  NameDescription
AddRuntimeProvider
Add a runtime provider to the list of runtime provider.
AuthenticateOverloaded.
ChangePassword
Changes the password of the user.
ChangePasswordQuestionAndAnswer
Changes the password question and answer of the user.
CheckContext
Check if the context of Visual Guard is valid.
Equals
Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Finalize
Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object.)
GeneratePassword
Generates a random password of the specified length.
GetBytes
Encodes a specified String into a byte array
GetHashCode
Serves as a hash function for a particular type.
(Inherited from Object.)
GetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
IsAnonymousSessionSupported
Indicates whether an anonymous sessions are supported by the current application.
LoadAnomymousSecurityOverloaded.
LoadSecurityOverloaded.
MemberwiseClone
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
ResetPasswordOverloaded.
SetSecurityOverloaded.
SignOut
Unloads the roles and permissions granted to the current user.
ToString
Returns a String that represents the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
ValidateUser
Verifies that the supplied user name and password are valid.
WriteLog
Writes a new log entry as defined in the specified VGLogEntry object to the log stored in the default Visual Guard repository.

Properties

  NameDescription
AllowAutomaticInterception
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.
ApplicationName
gets the name of the application managed by Visual Guard
ApplicationType
gets the type of the application managed by Visual Guard
AuthenticationState
Gets a VGAuthenticationState object representing the last authentication state.
AuthorizationState
Gets a VGAuthorizationState object representing the last authorization state.
ConfigurationFile
Gets or sets the path of the Visual Guard configuration file.
DefaultConfigurationFilename
Gets the default name of the file used as Visual Guard configuration file
EnablePasswordReset
Gets a value indicating whether the current membership provider is configured to allow users to reset their passwords.
GenerateDebugInformation
Gets or sets a VGDebugOptions value indicating whether debug information should be included or not.
IncludeWindowsGroups
Gets or sets a Boolean value that indicates whether role granted to Windows Groups are included to the list of role of a user.
LogEnabled
Gets a value indicating whether the log is enabled for the current repository.
MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts
Gets the number of invalid password or password-answer attempts allowed before the membership user is locked out.
MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters
Gets the minimum number of special characters that must be present in a valid password.
MinRequiredPasswordLength
Gets the minimum length required for a password.
PasswordAttemptWindow
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.
PasswordPolicyMessage
Gets the message displayed to the user if the password does not match the validation rules.
PasswordStrengthRegularExpression
Gets the regular expression used to evaluate a password.
Principal
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.
ReplaceCurrentPrincipal
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.
RequiresQuestionAndAnswer
Gets a value indicating whether the default membership provider requires the user to answer a password question for password reset and retrieval.
RequiresUniqueEmail
Gets a value indicating whether the repository is configured to require a unique e-mail address for each user name.
Runtime
Gets the current VGSecurityRuntime instance used by the security manager
SecurityEnabled
Gets or sets a value indicating if the Visual Guard security is enabled.
SyncRoot
Gets an object that can be used to synchronize access to the VGSecurityManager.
TraceLevel
Gets or sets the level of the Visual Guard trace.
TraceListener
Gets or sets the TraceListener object used to trace Visual Guard messages.
UpdateCredentialStatistics
Gets or sets a boolean value indicating if the statistics of credential must be updated or not.

Events

  NameDescription
CheckVersion
Allows to check if the version of the repository permissions is compatible with the version of the application.
DefaultRuntimeInitialized
Occurs when the VGSecurityRuntime object assigned by default to the security manager is initialized.
LogWriting
Occurs before a log entries is written in a repository.
PermissionsLoading
Occurs before the permissions are loaded and allows filtering the list of user's roles.
SecurityError
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.
SecurityLoaded
Occurs after the security permissions are loaded.
SignedOut
Occurs when the current user is signed out.
ValidatingPassword
Occurs when a password is changed or is reset.

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