Calculating the Required Assembly Permission Set

Visual Studio 2005 can help to estimate the permissions an assembly requires. Although Visual Studio 2005 is a developer tool, as an administrator, you will find it helpful to get an idea of the permissions that a Web Part library requires. For example, if you are using a Weather Web Part that requires full permissions, something is definitely wrong with it. As an added bonus, Visual Studio 2005 can help you to retrieve the XML needed to define permissions in security policy files. If you want to try the techniques outlined in this section, you will need access to Visual Studio 2005, preferably installed on a test SharePoint server. This section does not assume you have any knowledge about Visual ...

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