.NET and COM Interoperability Handbook, The

Code Access Security

In the modern computing environment, you may receive code from several different sources: from your local hard drive, from your corporate intranet, from a network drive, from email, or from the Internet. Depending on where the code originates from and other properties of the code, such as who authored the code, you may want to assign different permissions to the code. For instance, if the code originated from your hard drive, you may want to allow it to do just about anything. If it originated from your local intranet or from a network drive on your corporate intranet, you may not want to prevent the code from writing to your local files, but you may allow it to read your files. If the code came from the Internet, you probably ...