Introduction
As a developer, your job does not end when you deliver an application to the end user. Users expect a well-designed Windows application to be configurable with a minimum of trouble and without needing to have code rewritten. As a simple example, if your application retrieves data from a database, you should provide some way for the end user to configure the name of the database server.
Administrators, too, want to configure applications. Administrative configuration often involves setting up security. In some cases, this involves computer security, designed to keep untrusted applications from harming the operating system or the user's critical data files. In others, this involves user security, designed to control who can use a particular ...
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