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AppDomainManager Class

Provides a managed equivalent of an unmanaged host.

System.Object
  System.MarshalByRefObject
    System.AppDomainManager

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
[ComVisibleAttribute(true)]
[SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, Flags = SecurityPermissionFlag.Infrastructure)]
public class AppDomainManager : MarshalByRefObject

The AppDomainManager type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method Supported by the XNA Framework AppDomainManager Initializes a new instance of the AppDomainManager class.
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  Name Description
Public property ApplicationActivator Gets the application activator that handles the activation of add-ins and manifest-based applications for the domain.
Public property EntryAssembly Gets the entry assembly for an application.
Public property HostExecutionContextManager Gets the host execution context manager that manages the flow of the execution context.
Public property HostSecurityManager Gets the host security manager that participates in security decisions for the application domain.
Public property Supported by the XNA Framework InitializationFlags Gets the initialization flags for custom application domain managers.
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  Name Description
Public method CheckSecuritySettings Indicates whether the specified operation is allowed in the application domain.
Public method CreateDomain Returns a new or existing application domain.
Protected method Static member CreateDomainHelper Provides a helper method to create an application domain.
Public method CreateObjRef Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Public method Supported by the XNA Framework Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Supported by the XNA Framework Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Supported by the XNA Framework GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetLifetimeService Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Public method Supported by the XNA Framework GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method InitializeLifetimeService Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Public method Supported by the XNA Framework InitializeNewDomain Initializes the new application domain.
Protected method Supported by the XNA Framework MemberwiseClone() Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone(Boolean) Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. (Inherited from MarshalByRefObject.)
Public method Supported by the XNA Framework ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
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Exception Condition
SecurityException

The caller does not have the correct permissions. See the Requirements section.

Important note Important

Do not use AppDomainManager to configure an application domain in ASP.NET. In ASP.NET, configuration must be handled by the host.

Implementing the AppDomainManager class enables a hosting application to participate in the creation of new application domains. To replace the default AppDomainManager, identify the assembly and type of the replacement AppDomainManager in the APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_ASM and APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_TYPE environment variables, or use the <appDomainManagerAssembly> and <appDomainManagerType> elements in your configuration file. The assembly must be fully trusted and be contained in the global assembly cache or the directory of the starting application. The type and assembly names must be fully qualified in the environment variables. For example:

set APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_TYPE=MyNamespace.TestAppDomainManager

set APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_ASM=customappDomainmanager, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f1368f7b12a08d72

Important note Important

If the assembly that contains your subclass of AppDomainManager depends on assemblies that are marked with the conditional AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute (APTCA) attribute, you must include those assemblies in the list that you pass to the PartialTrustVisibleAssemblies property of the AppDomainSetup you use to create application domains. Otherwise, the assemblies that are marked with the conditional APTCA attribute will be disabled.

The AppDomainManager is the managed equivalent of the unmanaged host. An AppDomainManager object participates in the creation of new application domains in a process and can customize the new AppDomain before other managed code runs. The AppDomainManager can also supply host managers that participate in other aspects of common language runtime execution. For example, an AppDomainManager can identify a HostSecurityManager object that participates in the security decisions of the application domain.

Note Note

Only assemblies granted FullTrust, such as assemblies in the global assembly cache or identified as fullTrustAssemblies in the AppDomain.CreateDomain(String, Evidence, AppDomainSetup, PermissionSet, StrongName[]) method can be loaded in the AppDomainManager constructor and the InitializeNewDomain method.

Note Note

This class contains a link demand and an inheritance demand at the class level. A SecurityException is thrown when either the immediate caller or the derived class does not have infrastructure permission. For details about security demands, see Link Demands and Inheritance Demands.

The following example shows a very simple implementation of AppDomainManager.


// To replace the default AppDomainManager, identify  the 
// replacement assembly and replacement type in the 
// APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_ASM and APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_TYPE  
// environment variables. For example:
// set APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_TYPE=library.TestAppDomainManager
// set APPDOMAIN_MANAGER_ASM=library, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f1368f7b12a08d72

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Net;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Permissions;
using System.Security.Policy;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Threading;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[assembly: System.Security.AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute()]

namespace MyNamespace
{
    [GuidAttribute("F4D15099-3407-4A7E-A607-DEA440CF3891")]
    [SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.LinkDemand, 
        Flags = SecurityPermissionFlag.Infrastructure)]
    [SecurityPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.InheritanceDemand, 
        Flags = SecurityPermissionFlag.Infrastructure)]
    public class MyAppDomainManager : AppDomainManager
    {
        private HostSecurityManager mySecurityManager = null;

        public MyAppDomainManager()
        {
            Console.WriteLine(" My AppDomain Manager ");
            mySecurityManager = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.CreateInstanceAndUnwrap(
                "CustomSecurityManager, Version=1.0.0.3, Culture=neutral, " +
                "PublicKeyToken=5659fc598c2a503e", 
                "MyNamespace.MySecurityManager") as HostSecurityManager;
            Console.WriteLine(" Custom Security Manager Created.");
        }

        public override void InitializeNewDomain(AppDomainSetup appDomainInfo)
        {
            Console.Write("Initialize new domain called:  ");
            Console.WriteLine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName);
            InitializationFlags = 
                AppDomainManagerInitializationOptions.RegisterWithHost;
        }

        public override HostSecurityManager HostSecurityManager
        {
            get
            {
                return mySecurityManager;
            }
        }
    }
}


.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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Why the APTCA attribute?
Using the sample code above in my own application caused me an "Inheritance security rules violated by type" error, seemingly caused by the APTCA assembly attribute that you've included with the derived app domain manager class.  Can anyone explain why the attribute is there?