We began thinking about it from the very start four years ago, and security factors into the .NET Framework in a couple of ways. For one, we have what we call evidence-based and code access security.

The review, conducted by Foundstone Inc. and Core Security Technologies, included a study of all of the platform's inherent security capabilities, such as code-access security, role-based and ...

Programming security is one of the harder development tasks. .NET creates fairly secure code by default, but code-access security (CAS) can be difficult to implement correctly and to verify ...

Programming security is one of the harder development tasks. .NET creates fairly secure code by default, but code-access security (CAS) can be difficult to implement correctly and to verify.

Stirling pointed out that .NET defines different sorts of code. "Managed" code is code that is executed under the control of the .NET framework.

Hello,I'm writing various business logic classes for a very data centric application. Various operations need validating (eg: save record, import massive excel spreadsheet of stuff). I was ...

The much-vaunted security of Microsoft's next-generation Web services platform is good, but the company still has some kinks to iron out, says a Digital Defense analyst.

File this under "In Case You Missed It": Microsoft earlier this month, during it's usual security patch update cycle, released two bulletins that had to do with two .NET Framework flaws. The first, ...