Microsoft® Visual C#® .NET 2003 Kick Start

Implementing Security in C#

One of the important aspects of programming assemblies is to understand and handle security. Security is an increasingly important issue to Microsoft so we'll take a look at this issue in the rest of this chapter, starting with using pointers in C#.

Using Pointers

You can use pointers in C++, but not in C# by default. If you're a C++ programmer, you know that a pointer holds the address and type of a programming entity, such as a variable or a method. Pointers are a problem if you're trying to be secure, because hackers can sometimes use them to point and modify various locations in your code far beyond your original intentions. (On the day of this writing, for example, Microsoft just issued a patch for all Windows ...