I met Graham at a craft show in Vermont 4 summers ago. I was so drawn to her work and her personality that I spent a good part of the afternoon hanging out with her and also bought one of her pieces. We have only communicated a bit since then, but kept saying “when I’m in your neck of the woods…”
Last night another wonderful Vermont artist, Daryl Storrs was at my house. She saw Graham’s piece and told me this terrible, tragic news which I was unaware of.
Get going with what are probably the most useful parts of WSE2 to the average developer: WS-Security and WS-SecurityPolicy with this webcast from Michele Leroux Bustamante.
A few things to note with the ACL functions in Whidbey,err .NET 2.0.
– If you are using ACL for creating files, you can’t combine it’s use with the file.writeall shortcut. YOu need to use filestreaming. That’s a bummer. (Maybe a temporary one?)
– Pay attention to the complexity and combination of possibilities. FOr example, you can create a filesecurity object that denies deletion of the file. However if that user has certain permissions on that machine, they can just modify the security settings of the file in Windows Explorer and do whatever they want with the it.
I think it would be interesting to create various objectsecurity objects and persist them (maybe just in a class) so that it would be really easy to apply combinations that you already created.
Also you need to consider flexibiltiy in assigning these to a particular account or account group. YOu probably won’t want to get stuck hardcoding those accounts in your app.