.NET Framework Security

Execution-Time Security Issues

Having compiled and deployed your assemblies to a target machine, the next step, of course, is to run your code within the Common Language Runtime. A lot of steps occur “under the covers” when you run your HelloWorld.exe managed executable. In this section, we're going to walk through the process by which managed code contained within an assembly is loaded, evaluated by security policy, Just-In-Time compiled, type-safety verified, and finally allowed to execute. The overall process of developing, deploying, and executing managed code is depicted graphically in Figure 12.1. We have discussed the Development and Deployment boxes previously and will focus solely on Execution in this section.

Figure 12.1. High-level ...