Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Richard Moore
Hi all Is it common practice to have developers RDP into a central server for the purposes of doing their day to day development? This is the first time I have encountered it, I'm used to developers having VMs on their local PCs. Kind regards Richard

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I have heard of it but never had to. I think it would drive me crazy if I was unable to personalise my environment. Craig On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Richard Moore moore...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all ** ** Is it common practice to have developers RDP into a central server for the

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread Bill Chesnut
I do development every day on either my VMs or Client VMs and use RDP 95% of the time to access them. As a consultant I am looking to move to something like a surface pro as my traveling machine and the depend on RDP for all my development environments. Bill Chesnut Microsoft Integration

Re: Develop over RDP

2013-03-21 Thread mike smith
It's good for QA encountered faults, where IWOMM for the dev. You just RDP into the VM they have the fault on, and use the remote debug stub running on the VM, with VS back on your machine. Working from home, I sometimes VPN to my work box (from a Mac 27) - that's a lot less convenient, but

Encryption

2013-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Hey all, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229741.aspx ...which allows you to encrypt data using information from the current user account or computer. I'm using ProtectedData to encrypt and decrypt passwords so they can be stored in database encrypted, but they want to be able to see

RE: Encryption

2013-03-21 Thread ifumust
Is this the sort of thing you after? Anthony 'The function used to encrypt the text Private Shared Function Encrypt(ByVal strText As String, ByVal strEncrKey As String) As String Dim byKey() As Byte = {} Dim IV() As Byte = {H12, H34, H56, H78, H90, HAB, HCD, HEF}

RE: Encryption

2013-03-21 Thread Jason Roberts
Hi, yeah sounds like a key to the encryption / decryption is probably what you want assuming there are multiple boxes and/or you want option to scale out. I think you can just use the stuff in the Cryptography namespace. Just bear in mind that securing the keys will be important. But it would

RE: Encryption

2013-03-21 Thread Williams, Thomas
An oldy but a goody - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10154/NET-Encryption-Simplified Thomas From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013 1:06 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Encryption Hey all,

Re: Encryption

2013-03-21 Thread Stephen Price
Thanks all. I found the CryptoStream class and an example of its use... Unfortunately that raised the question of Ok, so now where do we store our key in the app, so that no one can pull it out and use it, except for the app. At which point the answer was, why didn't you research this before

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Re: Encryption

2013-03-21 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
Stephen, Except using DAPI (which you know the issues) you are pretty much in a situation where any solution you pick can be reverse engineered by someone with enough access level. The next best way of doing it is to encrypt using a X.509 certificate. Generate a certificate with a private key,

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