.NET Framework Security

Chapter 26. Testing a Secured Assembly

By Matthew Lyons

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Determining What Is Being Protected

• Determining How Resource Protection Is Implemented

• Testing Any Applied Custom Permissions

• Testing the Methods and Properties That Should Be Protected

In the .NET world, most applications do not need to explicitly write security measures. They get it “for free” from the .NET Framework class library. However, the default security provided by the .NET Framework class library isn't always sufficient. Perhaps an application will need to access a resource that wasn't exposed by the .NET Framework. Another possibility is that the .NET Framework class library did not expose resources in a way that an application needed. In these cases, a .NET developer ...