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This might be a stupid question and I think I know the answer already but my group wants me to look into this because we got an email notice from IT to do the following action because of the ATL vulnerability:<br/><br/>"Anyone who has developed and/or redistributed code or components using Visual Studio 2003 thru 2008 must recompile their code."<br/>
My impression is that if you only used VS 2003 thru 2008 to develop .NET code using C# or VB.NET you are not affected by this vulnerability. You are only vulnerable if you are a C++ programmer who used the ATL library in their code. Am I right? But then again, I know that its possible to develop .NET components that look like COM components and these might use the ATL under the hood so I just want to be safe and make sure C#/VB.NET coders are not affected by this vulnerability.<br/><br/>Thanks for any information.
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My impression is that if you only used VS 2003 thru 2008 to develop .NET code using C# or VB.NET you are not affected by this vulnerability. You are only vulnerable if you are a C++ programmer who used the ATL library in their code. Am I right? But then again, I know that its possible to develop .NET components that look like COM components and these might use the ATL under the hood so I just want to be safe and make sure C#/VB.NET coders are not affected by this vulnerability.<br/><br/>Thanks for any information.
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