MSDN Webcast Review: Top 10 Ways to Secure your Desktop App in .NET

Going into this webcast today I didn't know what to expect. It was rated as a technical presentation, and I was interested in seeing how much I could apply to my winform apps. I have found a lot of Microsoft's webcasts on .NET security focus so much on web services they completely forget some people actually are trying to replace MFC applications with .NET Winforms.

With very little expectations going into this thing, I couldn't really be disappointed. This presentation was pretty good, although I must admit my mind wandered off a few times. Don't know why. He wasn't boring. But he wasn't all that exciting either.

I did like the discussion on declarative security and showing how to use principle permissions within code. I do that now by using the WindowsPrinciple roles to determine access restrictions directly within the form, but it was neat to see how he applied it directly to functions with things like <PrinciplePermission(Security.Demand...>

In the next few days the presentation will be online on-demand here, which will let you check it out for yourself. In the meantime, I kept a copy of the power point slides of the presentation, which you can get here.

Hmmm, I am starting to amass a little library of MSDN security webcasts. If you want to get the sliddecks of some of the other presentations I attended, hit the search box on the bottom right and type in "MSDN Webcast Review".