How to integrate access control with my ORM in a .net windows form application?

I'm not sure that this answer will be helpful in your situation, but it can be interesting for you X-tensive company (developer of DataObjects. Net ORM ) plans to implement similar feature for DataObjects. Net in few months.

X-tensive's plan is to provide full featured ready to use security extension, possibly based on attributes and aspects. Surely it will be closely connected with this ORM, but you can derive some ideas from its description. See feature request and its discussion here You can also take a look at Rhino Security I don't know current status of this project, but it seams such solution can be useful in your case.

I'm not sure that this answer will be helpful in your situation, but it can be interesting for you. X-tensive company (developer of DataObjects. Net ORM) plans to implement similar feature for DataObjects.Net in few months.

X-tensive's plan is to provide full featured ready to use security extension, possibly based on attributes and aspects. Surely it will be closely connected with this ORM, but you can derive some ideas from its description. See feature request and its discussion here.

You can also take a look at Rhino Security, I don't know current status of this project, but it seams such solution can be useful in your case.

By doing this separation you can easily switch data sources (in the future you might have your data on another server and access it through web services). I'm sure that there are a fancy name for this layer, but I call all my interfaces for managers. Presentation -> Managers -> Data Access Layer -> DB Example: var user = Program.Components.Get().

GetById(1); user. FirstName = "Jonas"; Program.Components.Get(). Save(user); In the managers you can use IIdentity and IPrincipal (built in access control interfaces in .

Net) to control access. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172765(VS.80).aspx.

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