Configuring Security

Implement security for a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service.

The .NET Framework offers a wide variety of security features. You can choose to run your machine in wide-open mode, with every user allowed to execute any .NET code, or you can lock down things selectively. You can control which programs have access to which resources, or which users have the right to execute which programs.

Broadly speaking, .NET security breaks down into two separate areas:

  • Code access security— This type of security manages the security of .NET source code itself. You can tell the .NET Framework the resources your code needs to execute properly, and the .NET Framework will check for permission ...

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