Hi, welcome back, Sometimes .NET 's System.Diagnostics.Process class and its Start method are not enough for our purposes and we need to call Win32 API directly from .NET ( P/Invoke mechanism) to be able to create a process the way we need. Here you...

Hi, welcome back, Smart Card Redirection on Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client 6.0 may cause SCardGetStatusChange to fail with error 0x8010001d - SCARD_E_NO_SERVICE - "The Smart card resource manager is not running." . When a user...

Hi, welcome back, Let's talk today a bit about Key Containers in CryptoAPI . Key containers can be created in user's profile or machine's. User-level key containers can only be used by the user in which profile they've been created, and machine...

Hi, welcome back, When we use a Smart Card with any application (i.e. Internet Explorer), the PIN that user inserted to access the card the first time may get cached and not requested again during the live of the application. But what if we need the...

Hi, welcome back, When using System.Security.Cryptography.Xml.XmlDsigC14NTransform , depending on the input type ( XmlDsigC14NTransform.InputTypes ) being passed to its LoadInput method, the result of its GetOutput method could be different: - If...

Hi, welcome back, I will talk today about a very common issue we face when we try to use .NET's RSACryptoServiceProvider class in ASP.NET . When we try to create a new RSACryptoServiceProvider object in this scenario, we may get the following exception...