How do I set full trust for a single Web Part in SharePoint?

Question

I am looking to set full trust for a single web part, is this possible? manifest.xml maybe?

Answer 1

Have you tried registering the assembly in the GAC? This is the preferred approach to giving any assembly full trust on your machine:

gacutil.exe \i C:\Path\To\Dll.dll

Hope that helps. Let me know if I misunderstood your question.

Answer 2

As far as I recall manifest.xml is correct, and you specify the CodeAccessSecurity.

This article has a detailed description about it http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2007/07/05/how-to-configure-code-access-security-for-a-web-part.aspx

when you deploy your solution then you deploy it with the -allowCasPolicies flag on

I'm not sure i'd want to put a webpart into the GAC

Answer 3

You can install a CAB packaged web part to the GAC using

STSADM -o addwppack -filename yourwebpart.cab -globalinstall

If you are using WSP packages you need to set attributes in the manifext.xml file

<Assembly Location="yourassembly.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache">

and call

STSADM -o AddSolution -filename yourwebpart.wsp

STSADM -o DeploySolution -name yourwebpart.wsp -allcontenturls -immediate -force -allowGacDeployment

Of course you shouldn't really install to the GAC if you can help it, setting CAS is the preferred way.