Chapter 27. The System.Security.Permissions Namespace
The System.Security.Permissions namespace contains
permission classes and their attribute counterparts. Permissions are
the mechanism through which the .NET runtime enforces code-access
security. Most commonly, code uses permissions to protect access to
its important functionality and resources by making security demands.
A security demand raises a
System.Security.SecurityException if the grant set
of the calling code (and all previous callers on the call stack) does
not include a permission equivalent to the one demanded. Other
security operations include link demands, inheritance demands, stack
walk overrides, and permission requests.
There are two ways to express security statements in code: imperative syntax and declarative syntax. Imperative syntax uses the methods of permission objects whereas declarative syntax involves the application of permission attributes to code elements, such as assemblies, classes, and methods. Permission attributes result in the instantiation and use of permission objects, but this is handled by the runtime and is transparent to both the programmer and user.
All permission classes implement the
System.Security.IPermission interface, which
defines the basic functionality all permissions must implement to
integrate with the runtime’s code-access security
mechanisms. However, there are three distinct categories of
permissions defined in the
System.Security.Permissions namespace: code-access permissions, ...
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