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IsolatedStorageFilePermissionAttribute Class

Allows security actions for IsolatedStorageFilePermission to be applied to code using declarative security. This class cannot be inherited.

Namespace:  System.Security.Permissions
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

'Declaration
<SerializableAttribute> _
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
<AttributeUsageAttribute(AttributeTargets.Assembly Or AttributeTargets.Class Or AttributeTargets.Struct Or AttributeTargets.Constructor Or AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple := True,  _
	Inherited := False)> _
Public NotInheritable Class IsolatedStorageFilePermissionAttribute _
	Inherits IsolatedStoragePermissionAttribute
'Usage
Dim instance As IsolatedStorageFilePermissionAttribute

The scope of the declaration that is allowed depends on the SecurityAction that is used.

The security information declared by a security attribute is stored in the metadata of the attribute target and is accessed by the system at run time. Security attributes are used only for declarative security. For imperative security, use the corresponding permission class.

The following example of a declarative attribute shows the correct way to request IsolatedStorageFilePermission, states that you must have at least this permission to run your code, and requests a maximum user quota of 5 MB.

<Assembly: IsolatedStorageFilePermissionAttribute( _
SecurityAction.RequestMinimum, UserQuota := 5242880)>
'In Visual Basic, you must specify that you are using the assembly scope when making a request.

The following example shows how to demand that the calling code has unrestricted IsolatedStorageFilePermission at link time. Demands are typically made in managed libraries (DLLs) to help protect methods or classes from potentially harmful code.

<IsolatedStorageFilePermissionAttribute( _
 SecurityAction.Demand, Unrestricted := True)> _
 Public Class SampleClass

This example shows how to tell the CLR that code in this assembly requires the IsolatedStoragePermission and also demonstrates how to write and read from isolated storage.

Option Strict On
Imports System
Imports System.Security.Permissions
Imports System.IO.IsolatedStorage
Imports System.IO


' Notify the CLR to only grant IsolatedStorageFilePermission to called methods.  
' This restricts the called methods to working only with storage files that are isolated  
' by user and assembly.
<IsolatedStorageFilePermission(SecurityAction.PermitOnly, UsageAllowed:=IsolatedStorageContainment.AssemblyIsolationByUser)> _
Public NotInheritable Class App

    Shared Sub Main()
        WriteIsolatedStorage()
    End Sub 'Main
    Shared Sub WriteIsolatedStorage()
        ' Attempt to create a storage file that is isolated by user and assembly. 
        ' IsolatedStorageFilePermission granted to the attribute at the top of this file  
        ' allows CLR to load this assembly and execution of this statement. 
        Dim s As New IsolatedStorageFileStream("AssemblyData", FileMode.Create, IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForAssembly())
        Try 

            ' Write some data out to the isolated file. 
            Dim sw As New StreamWriter(s)
            Try
                sw.Write("This is some test data.")
            Finally
                sw.Dispose()
            End Try 
        Finally
            s.Dispose()
        End Try 

        ' Attempt to open the file that was previously created. 
        Dim t As New IsolatedStorageFileStream("AssemblyData", FileMode.Open, IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForAssembly())
        Try 
            ' Read the data from the file and display it. 
            Dim sr As New StreamReader(t)
            Try
                Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadLine())
            Finally
                sr.Dispose()
            End Try 
        Finally
            t.Dispose()
        End Try 

    End Sub 
End Class 'App

' This code produces the following output. 

'  Some test data.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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