.NET Framework Security

Testing Security Policy Using the Evaluate Assembly Wizard

The tool provides a wizard that will help you analyze the current state of security policy with respect to any assembly. The Evaluate Assembly Wizard allows you to test the following conditions:

• What the permissions are that an individual policy level, or all three policy levels combined, will grant to a specific assembly

• What code groups are at an individual policy level or in all policy levels that apply to a specific assembly

The first feature will help you find out exactly what permissions policy will give to an assembly, and also the permissions each policy level contributes to the assembly's overall set of granted permissions. The second feature, testing what code groups apply to ...