Thread.CurrentP rincipal vs storing user info in session

I have this problem: I have a database with information about games, and users are able to vote for them. Everytime a user votes for a game I store the unique game name into a session variable (an array). So if they are in a page were they already voted, they won't have the option to do so. The idea is that the session cookie lasts "forever", I don't want them voting for the same game everytime they get to the site. This isn't soo strict,...

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All, If i set the Thread.CurrentPrincipal am i setting the Principal or on AppDomain? Could someone explain how these calls are different? If i want to store and hand over user information from the http request to the webservice implementation. Where is the best place to put it? should i store it on Thread.CurrentPrincipal, AppDomain.SetThreadPrincipal or ClientContext.SetData.

is that possible from a C++ app? thank you. -Greg

is it possible? pros and cons?

I have an object that spawns a worker thread to process one of its methods. That method processes methods on a collection of other objects. During this processing, a user may request to cancel the entire operation. I could request abort on the worker thread, but that is a) potentially messy, and b) not guaranteed to take immediate effect anyway. I would rather have some way of allowing the main thread to tell the worker thread that it...

I have an file based asp.net application the creates a thread to do some background printing. It works fine but when the application is deployed on a web server, the following error occurs in the thread when it accesses SQL: Login failed for user ''. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. Note the blank user. It seems that the new thread does not have the credentials but looking at "Thread.CurrentPrincipal",...

I am developing an application using asp.net 2.0. I created all my business objects in my app_code folder. As of right now, all my classes are public. In my aspx pages, I am declaring the class like so static Person myPerson; The static declaration is working for me, for It keeps the instance of the class open through the lifetime of the user who is logged in.

Hi there, We're using windows authentication in our web app and calling "thread.currentprincipal.identity.name" to get the currently logged on user name. On our system, the "pre-Windows 2000" field is set for domain users in Active Directory and "thread.currentprincipal.identity.name" returns: pre-Windows_2000_domain\username Is there any way to get the fully qualified domain name from the

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