Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Overview of Security Changes in .NET 4.0

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Because of the topic complexity and of the recent changes introduced by .NET Framework 4.0, this section requires you to have existing knowledge and skills on Code Access Security in the .NET Framework. We focus on some of the most important additions to the security model remembering that this is a complex architecture that would require an entire book for complete coverage;, keep in mind that here we provide an overview of what the MSDN documentation discusses in detail.

Assemblies contain code that is executed when you run the application. As for the operating system and for any development environment, code is executed according to security rules that prevent the code from unauthorized access ...