"White list" certain programs to "Run As Administrator", all the time. See how it enters a "secure desktop" with a classic Vista/7 prompt.
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Published 11/10/2009
This tool will help user to capture selected area of screen. It provides user to set his/her own HotKey to capture screen. It runs in system tray. Source code is included with this article.
File Verbs - EXE System Shortcut Menu Items
Published 11/10/2009
Do the verbs of a file, like Run as administrator, and Pin to Taskbar.
VB 6 and USB Flash Disks
Published 03/13/2008
Learn to determine whether or not a disk is plugged in. Also, learn how to make the disk Autorun, similar to CD drives, and, how to run a normal VB 6 program from this disk, without needing to install it on the client machine.
MAC-Based Authentication for Web Sites
Published 09/04/2007
Learn how to implement an additional security layer on company web sites by getting the machine ID of the system from registered users along with the user ID and password.
Explorer.exe and Visual Basic.NET 2005
Published 07/19/2007
Learn how to launch the main desktop icons, some Control panel items, and more with explorer.exe and Visual Basic.NET 2005.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
Working with Hashtables in .NET
Published 09/17/2012
There are millions of Namespaces in the .NET Framework. Coming from a VB 6 background, I was accustomed to arrays and arrays only. Luckily all has changed with .NET, in that the .NET Framework supports Collections, which as its name implies, is a collection of objects that you can store in a certain manner.
Implementing a WCF Message Contract
Published 06/25/2012
WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.
