How to integrate in WinForm ?

To integrate Visual Guard in your application you must:

• Add the assemblies of Visual Guard as references of your project.
• Insert the code to enable the security in your application.
• Create a Visual Guard repository and declare your application. This repository
  will contain all security items (users, roles, permissions …) of your
  application.
• Generate the Visual Guard configuration files
  by using the Visual Guard console. These configuration files will be needed to
  connect your application to the repository.

Integration Demo

Referencing Visual Guard assemblies

• Open the solution of your project in Visual Studio.
• In the solution explorer, expands the project node.
• Right-click the Project node for the project and select Add Reference
  from the shortcut menu.
• In .Net tab, select the 4 assemblies
  1. Novalys.VisualGuard.Security
  2. Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.WinForm
  3. Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.<RepositoryType> (Files, SQLServer or Oracle)
  4. Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.<ApplicationFrameworkType> (Depending on type of application’s framework, whether .NetFramework or .NetCore)

  And, then click the Select button, and then click the OK button

Note
In the list of assemblies, Visual Studio can display different versions of the Visual Guard assemblies. You must select the assembly corresponding to the version of the framework and target (x64, x32, or Any CPU) used in your project.

Note
Once the Visual Guard assemblies are referenced into project, you need to mark “Copy Local” property to “true” for each assembly.

Note
You must add either Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.NetFramework or Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Core (Depending on type of application’s framework)

• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security contains the main Visual Guard classes.
• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Files contains the classes needed to access
  to a file based repository.
• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.SQLServer contains the classes needed
  to access to a repository stored in a Microsoft SQLServer database (SQLServer 2005
  or higher). Available only in Visual Guard Enterprise Edition
• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Oracle
  contains the classes needed to access to a repository stored in an Oracle database
  (8i or higher). Available only in Visual Guard Enterprise Edition
• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.WinForm contains all classes based on WinForm
  control. This assembly is needed only if you use the forms provided by Visual
  Guard to authenticate, change a password or select a role. If you want to use
  your own form you do not need to add a reference to this assembly.
• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.NetFramework contains all classes required to support .Net Framework applications.
  This assembly is needed only if you want to integrate Visual Guard in .net framework applications.
• Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Core contains all classes required to support .Net Core applications.
  This assembly is needed only if you want to integrate Visual Guard in .net core applications.

Adding Visual Guard in your code

• Novalys.VisualGuard.SecurityVGSecurityManager:
  This class provides the main access point for interacting with Visual Guard. It
  provides authentication and authorization features, it allows to set the
  security of the object of your application.
• VGLoginForm
  This class is the default authentication form provided by Visual Guard. This
  class is very easy to use and is fully integrated with Visual Guard. You can
  use your own form, to authenticate a user. In this case you must call the VGSecurityManagerAuthenticate(String, String) method provided by the VGSecurityManager class.

Authenticating a user in VB.Net project where the application framework is enabled

Imports Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.WinForm
Imports System.Reflection
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices
Namespace My
   Partial Friend Class MyApplication

        Private Sub MyApplication_Startup(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As StartupEventArgs) Handles Me.Startup
            Dim form As VGLoginForm = New VGLoginForm()
            If form.ShowDialog() <> DialogResult.OK Then
                e.Cancel = True
                Return
            End If
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

Using the default login form provided by Visual Guard

Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.WinForm.VGLoginForm login = new Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.WinForm.VGLoginForm();
login.HeaderDescription = login.HeaderDescription + Environment.NewLine + "(the default user is \"jsmith\" and its password \"pwd\")";
login.UserName = "jsmith";
if (login.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
    login.Dispose();
    Application.Run(new MDIForm());
}

Dim login As New Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.WinForm.VGLoginForm
login.HeaderDescription = login.HeaderDescription + Environment.NewLine + "(the default user is ""jsmith"" and its password ""pwd"")"
login.UserName = "jsmith"
If login.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
    login.Dispose()
    Application.Run(New MDIForm)
End If

Authenticating a user with your own login form

this.DialogResult = Dialog.None;
  VGAuthenticationState state = VGSecurityManager.Authenticate(user.Text, password.Text);
  if (state.IsFailed)
  {
      if (state.IsCanceled)
      {
          return;
      }

      if (state.IsCredentialInvalid)
      {
          if (state.IsLastBadLogin)
          {
              MessageBox.Show("Invalid user or password. The next bad login will lock your account.");
          }
          else
          {
              MessageBox.Show("Invalid user or password");
          }
      }
      else if (state.IsUserNotAuthorized)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("user not authorized to log on the application");
      }
      else if (state.IsUserAccountExpired)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("your account is no more valid. Contact your administrator");
      }
      else if (state.IsUserAccountNotYetAvailable)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("your account is not yet available.");
      }
      else if (state.IsUserAccountLockedOut)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("your account is locked. Contact your administrator.");
      }
      else if (state.MustChangePasswordAtNextLogon)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("Your password is not secure enough. You must change it.");
          ChangePassword form = New ChangePassword();
          if (form.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
          {
              passwordTextBox.Text = form.NewPassword; goto
              Reauthenticate;
          }
      }
  }
  else
  {
      this.DialogResult = Dialog.OK;
      if (!state.IsPasswordSecure)
      {
          MessageBox.Show("Your password is not secure enough. You must change it.");
          ChangePassword form = new ChangePassword();
          form.ShowDialog();
      }
  }

Reauthenticate:
Me.DialogResult = DialogResult.None
  Dim state As VGAuthenticationState = VGSecurityManager.Authenticate(userTextBox.Text, passwordTextBox.Text)
  If state.IsFailed Then
    If state.IsCanceled Then Return
    If state.IsCredentialInvalid Then
        If state.IsLastBadLogin Then
        MessageBox.Show("Invalid user or password. The next bad login will lock your account.")
        Else
            MessageBox.Show("Invalid user or password")
         End If
     ElseIf state.IsUserNotAuthorized Then
         MessageBox.Show("user not authorized to log on to the application")
     ElseIf state.IsUserAccountExpired Then
        MessageBox.Show("your account is no more valid. Contact your administrator")
     ElseIf state.IsUserAccountNotYetAvailable Then
        MessageBox.Show("your account is not yet available.")
     ElseIf state.IsUserAccountLockedOut Then
        MessageBox.Show("your account is locked. Contact your administrator.")
     ElseIf state.MustChangePasswordAtNextLogon Then 
        ' The user must change the password before reauthenticating 
        MessageBox.Show("You must change your password")
        Dim form As ChangePassword =  New ChangePassword
        If form.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
           passwordTextBox.Text = form.NewPassword
           GoTo Reauthenticate
        End If 
     End If 
 Else
     Me.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK
      If Not state.IsPasswordSecure Then
        MessageBox.Show("Your password is not secure enough. You must change it.") 
        Dim form As ChangePassword = New ChangePassword
        form.ShowDialog()
      End If
End If

Loading the security for a user authenticated by an external system (based on Windows
Logon or another Single Sign-on)

Dim state As VGAuthorizationState
state = VGSecurityManager.LoadSecurity (System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent())
If state.IsFailed Then
    If state.IsUserNotFound Then
        MessageBox.Show("Your are not declared in the security repository")
    ElseIf state.IsUserNotAuthorized Then
        MessageBox.Show("Your are not authorized to log on to this application")
    End If
Else
    Application.Run(New MDIForm)
End If

VGAuthorizationState state = VGSecurityManager.LoadSecurity (System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent());
if (state.IsFailed)
{
    if (state.IsUserNotFound)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Your are not declared in the security repository");
    }
    elseif (state.IsUserNotAuthorized)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Your are not authorized to log on to this application");
    }
}
else
{
    Application.Run(new MDIForm());
}

• Add the Novalys.VisualGuard.SecurityVGISecurable
  interface to your class.
• Add the call to the SetSecurity method at the end of the constructor.