Does full trust mean the same as Run As Administrator

Question

Does full trust mean the same as Run As Administrator? I have read things stating that \"for this to work, the application must be a full-trust application.\" Is that the

Answer 1

No. As of version 2.0, the .Net framework has it's own little filesystem setup for security. Administrator or not, .Net apps won't do certain things if they aren't running from a 'trusted' location.

Just about anything on your local hard drive is trusted, but (and supposedly they fixed this for 3.5sp1) even the local intranet is not trusted, so most .Net desktop apps will fail to even start if they're sitting on a network drive or share.

You can change the configuration on a machine so it will allow apps from that zone, but it has to be done for every machine that's going to run the application, which breaks a common corporate deployment scenario.

From an ASP.Net standpoint, it also means that certain activities require more 'trust' than others. Sending e-mail, for example, can cause exceptions if not set up correctly.