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Windows 7 blocks files from external source

A while back I wrote to ArkeGlobal about windows 7 blocking my files.  It really should go here, so here it is with some updates.

 Original Sept 10, 2009

I downloaded an external dll source for a web application and adding the reference to my project yielded this error:

System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.”

As it turns out Windows 7 security was blocking my downloaded dlls from running as a trusted source.  Going into the file system itself, I checked the permissions on the actually dll file and a message at the bottom says:

“This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer.”

There is an ‘Unblock’ button right next to it and once I clicked it, it solved my issue.

 

Updated Oct 27, 2009

Since then, I ran into a similar issue but because of the way I had to build the project, every time it ran, it re-added that security back onto those dlls, so I found this: http://www.petri.co.il/unblock-files-windows-vista.htm

Look at solution 3 and/or 4.

 Updated Mar 2011

This last encounter is for those of you that have large, and I do mean large files to copy down.  I had a particular instance where I had to download an upgrade zip file for DNN to lay over a pre-existing one.  When I downloaded and extracted all the contents of it to the client's machine, I had some blocked files.  I grumbled and unblocked it, tried again and got the same error.  Then I realized, Windows had blocked *every* file inside that zip.  I immediately started googling and every single article basically said, 'window's does not provide a way to unblock in bulk'.  So I stared at over 1700 files I had to right-click and unblock by hand with no one providing a solution.  I was about 1 hour in when I had an idea: 

"Right-click -> Properties" on the ZIP folder

It will have the same 'unblock' feature that all it's children are inheriting from.  Once I unblocked the zip, I extracted and all my files played nice again.

 


Posted by Nicole Rodriguez on Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:50 PM
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Extending LINQ to SQL

We have been experimenting with LINQ to SQL on a couple projects lately and I am constantly impressed.  I'll post some tidbits as I come across some neat features.

Today I had to display the last 4 digits of a customer's credit card number on the UI.  I already have a DBML file in my project and the Customer table has been added to the designer.  Customer has a CreditCardNumber property (ignoring encryption for purposes of this example).  Of course business logic layers aren't new but all too often, you would find logic in the UI that displays the right 4-digits.  But now implementing the BLL is even easier by simply implementing a partial class.

Partial Public Class Customer
    Public Readonly Property Last4 as String
        Get
            Return Right(Me.CreditCardNumber, 4)
        End Get
    End Property
End Class

You can take it one step further and override the CreditCardNumber property and change the Get to return ************XXXX instead of the clear text credit card number, which will make your business logic even more secure.


Posted by Eric Stoll on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 1:40 PM
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