FileIOPermissionAccess Enum

Definition

Namespace:

System.Security.Permissions

Assembly:

System.Security.Permissions.dll

Caution

Code Access Security is not supported or honored by the runtime.

Specifies the type of file access requested.

This enumeration supports a bitwise combination of its member values.

public enum class FileIOPermissionAccess

[System.Flags]
[System.Obsolete("Code Access Security is not supported or honored by the runtime.", DiagnosticId="SYSLIB0003", UrlFormat="https://aka.ms/dotnet-warnings/{0}")]
public enum FileIOPermissionAccess

[<System.Flags>]
[<System.Obsolete("Code Access Security is not supported or honored by the runtime.", DiagnosticId="SYSLIB0003", UrlFormat="https://aka.ms/dotnet-warnings/{0}")>]
type FileIOPermissionAccess = 

Public Enum FileIOPermissionAccess

Inheritance

Object

ValueType

Enum

FileIOPermissionAccess

Attributes

FlagsAttribute ObsoleteAttribute

Fields

Name	Value	Description
NoAccess	0	No access to a file or directory. NoAccess represents no valid FileIOPermissionAccess values and causes an ArgumentException when used as the parameter for GetPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess), which expects a single value.
Read	1	Access to read from a file or directory.
Write	2	Access to write to or delete a file or directory. Write access includes deleting and overwriting files or directories.
Append	4	Access to append material to a file or directory. FileIOPermissionAccess.Append access includes the ability to create a new file or directory. To create files, code must also be granted bothAppend and either Write or Read access.
PathDiscovery	8	Access to the information in the path itself. This helps protect sensitive information in the path, such as user names, as well as information about the directory structure revealed in the path. This value does not grant access to files or folders represented by the path. For performance reasons, PathDiscovery should only be granted to directories, not to files. For example, PathDiscovery permission should be granted to paths such as C:\test and C:\test\\, not C:\test\example.txt.
AllAccess	15	Append, Read, Write, and PathDiscovery access to a file or directory. AllAccess represents multiple FileIOPermissionAccess values and causes an ArgumentException when used as the access parameter for the GetPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess) method, which expects a single value.

Remarks

Caution

Code Access Security (CAS) has been deprecated across all versions of .NET Framework and .NET. Recent versions of .NET do not honor CAS annotations and produce errors if CAS-related APIs are used. Developers should seek alternative means of accomplishing security tasks.

This enumeration is used with the FileIOPermission class.

Note

Giving Write access to an assembly is similar to granting it Full Trust. If an application should not write to the file system, it should not have Write access.

Although NoAccess and AllAccess are members of FileIOPermissionAccess, they are not valid for use as the parameter for GetPathList because they describe no file access types or all file access types, respectively. FileIOPermission.GetPathList expects a single file access type.

See also

• FileMode
• FileIOPermission
• FileIOPermissionAttribute