Integrating with Windows Security

If you want to integrate your application with Windows security, you can add code to your application that does the following:

1. Retrieve the current user's name from Windows

2. Get the primary key of the current user from the MM .NET User Manager

3. Register the user with the Security Manager

For example, you could put the following code in your application's Main() method found in the Main.cs or Main.vb file:

public static void Main()
{
	try
	{
		// Instantiate the Application Object
		App = new AppDesktop();

		// Get the current user
		string Name = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;

		// Get a reference to the User object
		OakLeaf.MM.Main.Security.mmUser oUser =	mmAppBase.SecurityMgr.oUser;

		// Try to get the user record
		oUser.GetUserByIdAndPassword(Name, null);
		if (oUser.DataRow != null)
		{
			// Register the user with the application security manager
			mmAppBase.SecurityMgr.RegisterUser(oUser.DataRow[oUser.PrimaryKey]);
		}
		else
		{
			// Invalid user!!!
		}

And in VB .NET:

Public Shared Sub Main()
   Try
      ' Instantiate the Application Object
      App = New AppDesktop()
      
      ' Get the current user
      Dim Name As String = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name
      
      ' Get a reference to the User object
      Dim oUser As OakLeaf.MM.Main.Security.mmUser = mmAppBase.SecurityMgr.oUser
      
      ' Try to get the user record
      oUser.GetUserByIdAndPassword(Name, Nothing)
      If Not (oUser.DataRow Is Nothing) Then
         ' Register the user with the application security manager
         mmAppBase.SecurityMgr.RegisterUser(oUser.DataRow(oUser.PrimaryKey))
      Else
         ' Invalid user!!!
      End If

If you take this approach, you will typically want to turn off the user login form. You can do this by setting the DisplayLoginForm property of your application object to False.