Help，Write configuration text encryption

[yingjie]

I have been in the dialog box using the database connection test, there are server address and a user name and password. The installation process I will send for detecting user input user name and password to write to a web.config, but there is no encryption, I want the inside of the username and password is encrypted, ask how to encrypt, thanks.

[yingjie]

thanks，

[Cosmin]

Hi,

I added this feature on our TODO list and it will be available in a future version. Thank you for your suggestion.
In the meantime, a solution is to use a custom action. It will need to read installer properties, encrypt their values and update them so they can be used by the installer.

Regards,
Cosmin

[jjones]

The custom action suggestion works fine. We wrote our encrypt / decrypt functions in a C# CustomAction project and just call the functions. I created four properties - SQLPWPLAINTXT, SQLPWENCRYPT, SQLUSERPLAINTXT, SQLUSERENCRYPT - that I use in the installer. The C# functions reference these properties directly (using session["<PropertyName>") so once the user enters the SQL configuration and tests the connection it will encrypt the values and write them to the our .config file as encrypted strings.

[ephraimdov]

Hope this will help you.....C# Encryption

Dov

[Daniel]

Hello Dov and welcome to our forums,

Thank you for contributing to our forums. Certainly this info will be useful for future users.

All the best,
Daniel