Review: Visual Studio.NET2003
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, which is updated to exploit the built-in Web services capabilities in Microsoft's Windows Server 2003, is a promising new release to system integrators and professional developers. It has a practical development tool for creating next-generation applications.
The addition of code access security to the ASP.NET application is a useful feature. It seems that Microsoft has continued to apply much of what it has learned to optimising performance. Even the hard disk loads up faster.
To illustrate, systems administrators can now use code access security to further lock down the permission granted to ASP.NET Web applications and XML Web services.
Although the operating system account under which an application runs imposes security restrictions on the application, the code access security system of the common language runtime can enforce additional restrictions on selected application resources based on policies specified by systems administrators.
Developers can use this feature in a shared server environment, such as an Internet service provider hosting multiple Web applications on one server, to isolate separate applications from one another, as well as with stand-alone servers where you want applications to run with the minimum necessary privileges.