Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Tracking User Activity

Many applications require that you give users access to sensitive resources. When the users are using those resources, you will want to be able to see what was done. What did they look at? What actions did they fire? What data did they change? Most of the time, the users will not abuse their privileges. However, when the users are new and when they are trying to do something wrong, you want to see what they did. It will help you back out the changes the newbie made. As a forensic tool, tracking the changes will help you identify who did what and when.

All of this involves creating some sort of an auditing strategy. In the best of all worlds, you will know exactly who is calling you. Auditing was discussed as a debugging ...