Greetings All,
   I hope that someone can help me this problem as it is driving me nutty. I have a Windows Control Library that I have compiled into a .dll that is then embedded into a web form on my server. Now as I was developing this I had no problem with the embedding and rendering of the control, but, one of the last things this control does is write a file to a web directory. I went into IIS and set up Read and Write permissions on the necessary directory and also allowed for Execute Permissions: Scripts and Exectuables. After doing this my control renders as an empty Textarea???

If I go back into IIS and change the execute permissions to Scripts Only the control renders fine?? Does anyone know why this is happening, or how to fix it? If not, is there anyway to programatically bybass the secuirty on the File System so I can write this file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Being able to programmatically bypass the security would defeat the whole purpose of it. So the answer to that particular question is no.


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-Peter

Hi Peter and Doug,
How about sandboxing.
U strong name your control library and allow read write permission to it identified it by its strong name in caspol. Then you can entrust the caller (in this case your web application) from this control library (with a LinkDemand or an Assert), to allow access to the directory in question via the control library code.
This is no hack mind you.
It is a genuine way in which you are 'sandboxing' the file access code in an entrusted library and keeping the application that shouldn’t have higher permissions (your web application in this case) the way it is. U wont have to assign your web app any extra permissions this way.

Regards
Ankur Verma

Thank you for your replies gentlemen. Ankur, thanks for the heads up, I ended up compliling the Control Library and added it to the GAC and everything seems to be working fine; thanks again for your comments!

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