Can anyone confirm my suspicions that AzMan <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998336.aspx> has been quietly deprecated or replaced for managed coders? I know it's been available for many years and it has a nice azman.msc plugin where you can create a fine-grained security roles store. The store was always an XML file or AD, which was either too primitive or too complicated to use respectively. But this morning I noticed by accident that a SQL database can now be used, so I created one and put some test rules and roles into it. Then I knocked-up a console app to test the SQL store. Firstly there is no azman in "Add Reference". Then the folder C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\authman is empty. Then I find this file:
C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft.interop.security.azroles_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_1769404241913ecb\Microsoft.Interop.Security.AzRoles.dll I add an incredulous reference to this file anyway, but find it's all COM wrappers which can't be used the way old sample code in the Internet indicates. At this point I have diminishing returns on a Sunday and give up and wonder what's going on wit azman overall. *Greg K*
