UI apps networking?

Ok, I'll look into that.

I provide a very noticeable disclaimer on the registration page to not use your BeamNG forum password for beam.trader.
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I tried compiling the Hello World example from at least 2-3 different websites in Visual Studio 2017 with several errors. I'm still going to code the client in C++

 

You clearly have zero idea of how to deal with sensitive data, much less people's login and passwords. I'm starting to think that you even lack simple common sense.

 

Look, I am still learning about web development and we don't need that attitude here. No, I don't know how to deal with sensitive data yet but just because I do not know yet does NOT mean I lack common sense. Common sense =/ technical knowledge.

 

Storing people's passwords in an encrypted format has everything to do with common sense.

 

Fuck no. YOU NEVER, EVER STORE PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT. I don't care what it is for, YOU DON'T FUCKING DO IT. Passwords are expected to be secure. In addition, you damn well should not store passwords in any form, even encrypted, on any of your servers. They should be hashed. That way, you don't have a security problem if there is a breach.

NEVER, EVER STORE PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT.

 

First of all, please calm down, you can make your point without reaching that level.
Secondly, does a database count as plain text?

 

It won't help anybody to post a facepalm gif. In fact, if you want your passwords to be secure maybe you should help me learn to do that to my website and not waste my time typing this.

 

Let me put it this way. If you have any way to find out what any user's password is, you're doing it wrong.
I will give you a few videos to watch for why you must never store passwords in any format, and how you must handle login authentication.



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Alternatively, you could have user's log in through Steam or Google or something else. Then you don't have to store passwords at all. And, tbh, it'll be a lot easier for you to deal with.

Use MSDN. Here's the C# portal. It has all of the up to date information you need.

 

It would be easier on the website, but I'm not sure how I would integrate those login services with the client program. Ideally users would log in with their BeamNG forum accounts but I don't think this place is set up for that.

You forgot to paste a link I searched msdn c# portal on Google and the only results that came up were for Visual Studio versions of the mid-2000s.

 

I have no idea how to code, although I would love to learn one day...

Anyway, I hope this works, it seems like a great idea, all the best

 

Idea: You may don´t need any login at all. It is only an Idea, but what if you use the Information wich is already unique on the pc, like the processor id and the mainboard id. Even if two guys have the same pc specs, they could be distinguishable based on the hardware id´s.
Reminder this is only an Idea, you can use it as the basic concept of your authenticator. Be creative with your program, the only limit is your imagination ... and your disk space

Oh and always remember:

 

public class Hello1
{
public static void Main()
{
System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
}
}
Done. Was that so hard, dumbass.
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Yes. Yes it does. As already mentioned before, your existing solution included the username and password to the database in the public domain. Allowing me to log into the database and read its entire contents, or alter it. That and should someone somehow hack you and get hold of your database through other means, again, theyve got passwords in it. Did you know its actually a criminal offense in the US and europe to store user data in non encrypted/obfuscated formats? Encrypting the database file itself, does not count.

Passwords you dont ever store. You calculate the hash of the password and store that, when a user enters their password, you hash what they enter and compare that. You never ever keep a password. Its because websites dont keep passwords that when you click lost my password to a website, they cant give you the password back, you have to get a new one, they cant give you your old one because they dont have your old one.

 

:|

That attitude is not needed.

And,

 

you havent followed the tutorial at all. I can see from the filename. MainPage.xaml.cs, thats a WPF project. Every single tutorial orders you to create a console project, and the microsoft hello world sample download is a console project.So here you go.

Its not microsofts fault you clicked the wrong thing

 

Welll, with enough money and determination, practically anything can be done . It's just a matter of making it so secure that the evil people run out of determination, or money.

 

Hey, at least we're helping. We could just not bother, and let you write a heap of unsecured trash.

 

That's funny. I just searched and the oldest document I got was for VS2010. it was still correct. C#is the language. Visual studio is the tool used only. Hello world has not changed since the mid 2000s