SecurityElement.FromString(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Security

Assembly:

System.Runtime.dll

Source:

SecurityElement.cs

Creates a security element from an XML-encoded string.

public:
 static System::Security::SecurityElement ^ FromString(System::String ^ xml);

public static System.Security.SecurityElement? FromString (string xml);

static member FromString : string -> System.Security.SecurityElement

Public Shared Function FromString (xml As String) As SecurityElement

Parameters

xml

String

The XML-encoded string from which to create the security element.

Returns

SecurityElement

A SecurityElement created from the XML.

Exceptions

XmlSyntaxException

xml contains one or more single quotation mark characters.

ArgumentNullException

xml is null.

Remarks

Do not use single quotation marks in the XML string; instead, use escaped double quotation marks. For example, instead of "<value name='Company'>Microsoft</value>" use "<value name=\"Company\">Microsoft</value>".

Using single quotation marks can result in either an exception being thrown or, in some cases, the single quotation marks being treated as text in the string.

Evidence based security model is not supported on .NET Core and this method will return null.