Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Programming .NET Compact Framework Security

So far, this chapter has looked at how you safeguard a handheld device so that only the authorized user can use it, how you authenticate mobile applications that connect to your back-end servers, and how you protect data stored on the device. What about programming for security? The full .NET Framework has a robust security architecture built upon the following key mechanisms for protecting resources and code from unauthorized code and users:

• Code access security

  uses permissions to control the access that a piece of code has to protected resources, such as the local file system or other sensitive resources. Permissions are objects that the runtime grants to a piece of code. They represent access to a ...