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Extracting effective permissions from TFS - sample update v1.2

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The team is happy to announced an update of the Extracting effective permissions from TFS whitepaper and sample.

where are the bits?

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RELEASE V1.2 | WHITEPAPER | SAMPLE ZIP

what has changed?

Whitepaper

  • No changes.

Sample Code

  • Fixed bugs
    • Root area permissions are missing.
    • Root iteration permissions are missing.
  • Refactoring
    • Replaced the hardcoded SecurityNamespaces Id with dynamically retrieved available SecurityNamespaces in ISecurityService Object using GetSecurityNamespaces() method.
      Sample 1
    • Replaced the hardcode security actions with dynamically retrieved actions from SecurityNamepace using  SecurityNamespaceDescription.Actions property.
      Sample 2
    • Created a generic method (AccessControlEntryToPermission) to handle the conversion of AccessControlEntry to Permission object and check the permission dynamically against ActionDefinition.Bit and removed duplicate handling per each SecurityNamespace.
      Sample 3
    • Moved couple of methods to the Helpers class.
  • Permission report sample
    Sample 4

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2015
    Can we make the solution compatible with VS 2015?

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2015
    @Brian, we are not planning any updates. But, the sample code is available on github.com/.../Extracting-effective-permissions-from-TFS and we are accepting pull requests if anyone in the community has an update.

  • Anonymous
    July 21, 2018
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