I just posted a sample profiler:



http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost27390.aspx



The PostSharp looked very cool, but it was fun to geek out on this a bit.

Bill,



Here's a good post from StackOverflow that might help out.



http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489151/method-profiling-using-attributes

Thanks for looking that up...I tried going through the source code, but did not see that it was accessing a dictionary entry. That's good.

From the help:

"When a user logs into the system, a flat list of his/her permissions is compiled according to the permissions assigned to the user through his/her assigned roles and directly assigned permissions."

If you have a look at the RBS source code, you will see that GetPermission will try to get the value from a Dictionary added with the user's permissions. This is initialized when the user is Authenticated. So, there won't be a trip to the server when GetPermission is used.

I am not sure if the permissions are cached, my guess is that they are not.



Another idea is use a splash form which will do all the settings in the background letting the user know what is going on, then show up the main form when done. Trent posted a very easy to implement sample of such Splash Form in the forum a while ago, that sample project may give you some ideas to implement in your project.



Also using background process object in some key process speed up a lot of things, so if you have some sort of calculation process that you do before loading the main form, a background process can help you in that regard.



Please keep us posted.

Edhy Rijo

If a check for a specific permission is called like this...



cmdCoolButton.Enabled = (SecurityBasics.CurrentUser.GetPermission("Corporate").Action == PermissionAction.Grant);



...does the CurrentUser (ISecurity) object have it's permissions cached, or does the GetPermission run off to the server each time to perform a check?



It would be nice if they were cached locally. It would speed things up and limit the calls to the DB. The tradeoff is that a user would have to logoff then back on to obtain any new changes to the security profile. The tradeoff might be worth it.

This is a winforms app and I am using RBS. The main form does have a few security checks going on (which is what I will whack and hack first), but I do not have any other DB activity. The security checks are used to determine what the user sees on the main form.

Hi Bill,



Just to clarify, the programs are installed on each workstations, right?



If so, are you using SF security?



Are you using a main form? if so, does this make some sort of database connection or checking before finishing loading?

Edhy Rijo

Nice utility, but it doesn't look like it would work in a run-time environment at a remote location.



I'll just start whacking and hacking. Thanks, anyway.

Hi Bill.

Have a look at this:

http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_performance_profiler/features.htm