Building e-Commerce Sites with the .NET Framework

Code-Access Security

Code-access security controls access to protected resources and operations, such as unmanaged code and file I/O. .NET code-access security performs many functions. For instance, .NET code-access security defines the permissions that allow access to system resources and enables administrators to manage and configure security policy.

Some of the most important functions .NET code-access security performs are allowing code to specify any permissions it requires to run and enabling code to demand which permissions its clients must have. It also compares a client's permissions to the permissions it must have and grants permission to loaded assemblies based on requested permissions and those set by the security policy.

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