Keeping Login information throughout the Windows App.

[Babu Mannaravalappil]

My Windows application (C#) has a login screen and a user table to
handle user rights and accessibility. This is independant of the OS
level user security. At the time of launching the application, this
login authenticates the user and sets the access rights. What is the
best way to get to this user information (either as a datarow from the
users table or as a user class object) application wide. I have
custom user controls on windows forms that update customer data.
These custom user controls need to know who the current user is. So,
in a .NET windows application how can I keep a custom user class
object or a datarow object globally visible for any module that
requires it?

Any help is highly appreciated.

Babu.

[Babu Mannaravalappil]

Thanx for the reply. Mine is a Windows app and NOT a Web app. So,
storing it in a session is out of question. Is there something in
Windows environment equivelant to "Session" in Web environment?

Babu.

"d_grantham" <gr******@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<23****************************@phx.gbl>...

Store the credentials in a session variable. I store the
database connection string parameters there with the
authentication information retrieved from a login form.

It is available as long as the session is.

-----Original Message-----
My Windows application (C#) has a login screen and a user

table to

handle user rights and accessibility. This is

independant of the OS

level user security. At the time of launching the

application, this

login authenticates the user and sets the access rights.

What is the

best way to get to this user information (either as a

datarow from the

users table or as a user class object) application wide.

I have

custom user controls on windows forms that update

customer data.

These custom user controls need to know who the current

user is. So,

in a .NET windows application how can I keep a custom

user class

object or a datarow object globally visible for any

module that

requires it?

Any help is highly appreciated.

Babu.
.