Hi,

Has anyone managed to get this working in a Medium Trust Hosting environment ?

Thanks,

Mike

Medium Trust is easier in 2.0 than it was in 1.1. I think most of this code will work fine. You'll probably need a medium trust policy file to deal with the problem cases.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...AGHT000020.asp

Hi,

I've read this article before, however the trouble I'm having is that it's very difficult to isolate the code that is causing the security access problems.

I've replicated the medium trust environment on my dev server by adding <trust level="Medium" /> in my web.config but I'm at a loss as to how to go about debugging as I simply get the security access error message which doesn't give me much of a clue.

Any help on how to tackle this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

I've never tried this myself. Can you bring up any of the pages? Have you tried tracing? Is there anything in the Windows Event Log?

Have you tried running a different 2.0 website - maybe just a simple page that shows a grid that gets data from SQL Server (using the web.config setting). You need to drop down to the basics and see what works. Then add a little complexity at a time until it breaks.

I have worked with Medium Trust, but not with this code.

When working in a trust environment it's best to start out at the desired level of trust and develop from there. I'll plug a Wrox title here because I think it's the best book on this topic: Professional ASP NET 2.0 Security, Membership and Role Management

Hi,

On Englere's suggestion I eventually ended up looking up how to use the tracing aspects of ASP.Net, I must say that I hadn't realised how much info it gave. Incidentally if anyone has any good links describing the ins and outs of ASP.Net tracing let me know.

Anyhow through using the tracing I narrowed down the problem to be related to this:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ermission.aspx

So with the web.config modified to that shown below the code now works fine in a medium trust hosting environment, the important addition being >> requirePermission="false" <<.

<configSections>
  <section name="theBeerHouse" requirePermission="false" type="MB.TheBeerHouse.TheBeerHouseSection, __code"/>
</configSections>

Thanks for all your help

p.s. MythicalMe: I've added the book you suggested to my wish list

Thanks for sharing this with us. I hear that more shared hosting companies are moving to medium trust for their own protection.