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SN v2.0 Works With PFX Files

One enhancement to the v2.0 SN tool that may not get noticed right away is that it now has the ability to work with PKCS #12 PFX files in addition to SNK files. The logic here is that a self signed certificate stored in a PFX file is the moral equivalent
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New Security Features in Visual Studio 2005

Brian Johnson has a new article on MSDN about New Security Features in Visual Studio 2005 . Definitely worth a read -- he covers a lot of area, from Application Verifier, to ClickOnce, to PermCalc, right on down to unit testing.
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Finding Out The Current User in the Debugger

Every once in a while, while debugging multi-threaded applications that do impersonation, it becomes useful to figure out the context that the current thread is running under. This is especially useful when debugging server scenarios where connections
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Whidbey's New SecurityException

One of the more difficult things to debug with .NET 1.0 and 1.1 is the security exception. With these frameworks generally the only information that you got was the state of the failed permission. Due to the complexity of debugging security problems,
 
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