Medium Trust Overview

The default ASP.NET 2.0 application run mode is with full trust. However, if your application is required to run in a MEDIUM TRUST environment you will need to consider the impacts of medium trust on the design and development of your application. Applications that are being upgraded from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 will have additional considerations because the security settings in 1.1 and 2.0 are slightly different.

Medium trust is often used in hosted environments were the application is isolated from other applications running on the same web server or web farm.

 Medium trust security settings restrict your application in the following ways:More...