Re: Minimum permissions for Microsoft Exception Application Block

From: Ivan Medvedev [MS] (ivanmed_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:59:30 -0800

There is a tool called PermCalc that we are going to ship in the Whidbey
release that does just that. Speaking of FxCop, it is very possible to write
FxCop plug-ins (or "rules") that utilize its call graph and other analysis
capabilities. See FxCop team blog which points to the necessary
information - http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop
--Ivan
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"Keith Patrick" <richard_keith_patrick@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23$WpqVH3DHA.1752@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Well, I *was* working on a tool that does just that, in addition to
> examining .xml documentation files to alert users to undocumented and
> unhandled exceptions, but I'm hung up trying to decompile code into
symbolic
> types. Maybe if there is a way to hook into FxCop's call graph, it would
go
> pretty quickly...
>
> "Azad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:853B9260-2CCE-4EB3-A7FB-224DC6404016@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering why the Microsoft team hasn't specified the minimum
> permissions required for the assemblies that are shipped with the
exception
> application block, although the required references (system.security,
> system.security.permissions) have been included in the AssemblyInfo file.
> The minimum permissions have been identified for other application blocks
> such as the configuration management or the data application block. Now I
> have to figure it out by myself. Does anyone know what the minimum
> permissions should be for the exception block?
> > Another question that I have, and this might be just wishful thinking:
> > Is there a tool that would examine my assemblies in a Visual Studio
> solution and then tells me what the minimum permissions should be? That
> might be a cool feature for the next release of Visual Studio!
> >
> > Thank you for your response,
> > Azad
>
>

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