Satellite assemblies and FullTrust issues when .NET exe is on the network.

Question

I'm executing my .NET app from a network share.

Since framework 3.5 SP1, and as explained here: http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2008/05/12/fulltrust-on-the-localintranet.aspx, the main exe and all the DLLs located in the same folder (but not subfolders) are granted with FullTrust security policy.

My problem is that I have subfolders for satellite assemblies with localized strings.

Namely, I have:

1) FOLDER\APP.EXE
2) FOLDER\A whole bunch of DLLs
3) FOLDER\LANGUAGE1\Satellite assemblies
4) FOLDER\LANGUAGE2\Satellite assemblies

1 and 2 are automatically granted with FullTrust.

3 and 4 are not and my application is really slow because of that.

Is there a way to grant 3 & 4 FullTrust security policy at runtime, since the application running has FullTrust?

If not, is there a clean way to have satellite assemblies merged into only one DLL?

Answer 1

You can sign all your assemblies with a key created yourself. Then give full trust to anything signed with your key (but that uses caspol one time for each client). Alternatively, get a key from a trusted source and sign with that (but that costs money).