Tuesday 5 November 2013

.NET 4 Security Model Acknowledges Mistakes were Made with CAS

.NET 4 changed *many* aspects of the .NET security model. One important change was the reducing the complexity of Code Access Security (CAS) by shifting responsibilities from the runtime to the developers. This certainly impacted code using Assembly.Load in System.Reflection (thank you mscorlib!)

The .NET Security Blog is definitely worth revisiting from time to time to get the latest download on .NET Security design decisions.

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