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Inheritance Demands for Interfaces

I'm cheating here by re-posting an e-mail I sent the other day... but hey, you don't expect me to come up with new content for this blog do you? :-) Here is a deliberately contrived example of why you might need to protect interfaces with inheritance
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Tin Foil Hat Tool

Based on some of Nicole's feedback , I decided to write a basic app that checked your .NET security settings for you -- kind of like a very basic version of the Windows XP SP2 "Security Centre" tool which pops up and annoys you if you don't have the firewall
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RequestRefuse and RequestOptional example

Dave asks for an example of how to use RequestRefuse and RequestOtional . Here's my attempt to post a short blog entry that describes it (luckily I had the code already at hand... ;-) ). The code consists of two libraries ("Optional" and "Refuse") and
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Developing as Non-Admin

Keith Brown writes a comment in one of my older posts about a chapter in his book dealing with developing code as a non-Admin . A great read if you're still one of those people running as an Administrator because you think you need to in order to do programming.
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VSTO Security Model

How we 'remove' My Computer Zone
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Mitigating Code Repurposing Attacks

A cure for insomnia?
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Code Repurposing

It's what keeps me up at night
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Successfully debugging VSTO projects

A few simple tips
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VSTO Press Coverage

The VSTO release has been picked up by SD Times . Hopefully this is the first of many stories. Unfortunately (but understandably) they don't explain the security story correctly, but that's a minor point. There's also something about Microsoft Office
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