Security for Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET

Code-Access Security and Deployment

The level of protection provided by the .NET code-access security system is largely determined by the deployment technique you choose. Ideally, you should choose a deployment technique that offers the highest level of protection by the .NET code-access security system for your code without causing your application to throw a security exception.

Deploy and Run Your Application in the .NET Security Sandbox

Deployment techniques that offer code-access security protection are said to run in the sandbox. The term sandbox, when applied to computer software, refers to an isolated environment in which an application can run and not harm other applications, the operating system, or data (or other resources) stored on the ...