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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:00 AM

Special Permissions in the SSCLI

Before digging into a pretty clever optimization that the SSCLI makes for certain special permission demands, I want to point out that everything I’m about to cover is an implementation detail. Although this optimization does occur today, we can and will
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Monday, April 03, 2006 2:44 PM

What Happens When You Fully Sign a Test Signed Assembly

When an assembly is test signed , the public key used to verify its signature is different from the public key that makes up part of the assembly identity. So what happens when you take an assembly which is registered as a test signed assembly on your
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:31 PM

When is ReflectionPermission Needed?

Reflection and its interaction with security can sometimes be a bit of a confusing matter. The easiest portion to figure out is the permissions needed to use Reflection.Emit. In order to do anything with the reflection emit feature, you'll need to have
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Monday, July 19, 2004 1:21 PM

Why == and the Equals Method Return Different Results for Floating Point Values

There's a subtle difference between comparing floating point values with the Equals method and comparing them with the == operator. (In all the code I show in this post, I use the Double class, however everything I say also applies to the Single class).
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:35 PM

What's the Deal with the ECMA Key?

The libraries laid out in the ECMA spec are all signed with a public key that looks pretty strange. If you ildasm mscorlib.dll, System.dll, or any of the other framework libraries that are defined in the ECMA specs (see partition IV: Library if you're
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