VB.Net Web Developer's Guide

Security • Chapter 12 573

The use of Assert makes sense in the following situations:

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You have coded a part of an application that will never be exposed to

the outside world.The user of the application has no way of knowing

what happens within that part of the application.Your code does need

access to protected resources, such as system files and/or Registry keys,

but because the callers will never find out that you use these protected

resources, it is reasonably safe to set an Assert to prevent a full security

check from being performed.You do not care if the caller has that

permission or not.

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Your code needs to make one or more calls to unmanaged code ...