November 4, 2003

Another Security Exception

C# was installed on one of the public workstations in Sitterson yesterday, at which point I first tried to compile my Video Descriptor application. Ran into some trouble with finding references to libraries, but fixed that.

Today, I got the application to compile and create a .exe. However, I seem to be unable to run/debug VideoDescriptor.exe from within Visual Studio .NET; it complains that I am not an administrator or in the debug group. What kind of stupid development requirement is that? I don't have to be root or be in some special group to write programs on any other platform.

So, I tried executing VideoDescriptor.exe from the command line. In this case, I ran into a new security exception different from the supposed unsafe code one I was running into with DotGNU. This one is:

Unhandled Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=1.0.3300.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 failed.

Is this because the files are over an AFS share? Visual Studio .NET seemed to imply that earlier. Unfortunately I can't write anything onto the local drive...

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