How do I implement user privileges; enable or disable control based on user right in VB

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Please I want to implement user permissions in vb. After logging to the system. The user's permissions are read from mssql database. Controls on the forms are enabled, visible etc based on the users permissions. Example of permissions: edit profile, delete profile etc.
And I want to know whether to implement each of the permissions as a column with a bit type or
Put all the permissions in different rows with a column type of bit to specify [enabled, visible]

What I have tried:

I tried to do it but I don't know how to go about it.

Posted 16-Mar-16 4:17am

kwaku Emma

Updated 16-Mar-16 6:00am

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CHill60 · Answer 1 · 2016-03-16T06:00:00

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There is an article by Jesse Liberty that discusses this in some detail. I'm afraid the code samples are in C# but they should be easy enough to translate.

Controls Based Security in a Windows Forms Application[^]

A simpler way might be to have different forms for different user types

Posted 16-Mar-16 6:00am

CHill60