Storing username and password

[Mark]

I have an application that has a username and password hard-coded in it. I
would like to remove this from inside the application but keep it secure.
What is a good way to do this?

Mark

 

[zacks]

I have an application that has a username and password hard-coded in it.  I
would like to remove this from inside the application but keep it secure.
What is a good way to do this?

Mark

Encrypted XML file.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Encrypted XML file.

Well, but where do you store the key used to decrypt the XML file? That's a
chicken-egg problem.

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Mark,

A good way (in my opinion the best) is to use the inbuild system. That
prevents direct that your solution does look from the past millenium.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.principal.windowsprincipal.aspx

Cor