Re: API Call vs Security

From: Mattias Sjögren (mattias.dont.want.spam_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/25/04

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    >If in an Windows Forms application I make a call to an Windows API (in this
    >case from gdi), Me or the user of the application, need to configure some
    >security issue?

    You need permission to call unmanaged code, something that's typically
    granted only to fully trusted code that executes from the local
    machine, and not from a network share or is downloaded from web.

    Mattias 

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