Security Features and the Visual Basic .NET Developer

If you’re developing applications or components that are intended to be run from environments such as a local network environment (intranet) or the Internet, you might find that your application doesn’t run as expected in those environments. For example, certain Visual Basic .NET statements might lead to security exceptions that immediately halt execution of your application. This chapter shows how you can work with the .NET code-access security system to create an application that is both safe and functional.

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If you’re creating a system component on the order of the .NET system libraries—such as the Microsoft.VisualBasic, System.Web, and System.Windows.Forms components, which are globally ...

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