How to provide extra trust for an Internet Explorer hosted assembly

A common scenario for developers is that they create an assembly that is to be hosted
by Internet Explorer, but requires more trust than would be given to it by default
by the Internet or LocalIntranet zone code groups.  Often the first attempt at
fixing this involves signing the assembly with a strong name or an X509 certificate
and then creating a code group that gives that signature full trust.  Developers
are often surprised when they continue to see security exceptions thrown even after
they do this.

The reasoning behind the security exception is AppDomains.  Before IE can load
your assembly, it must create an AppDomain to load the assembly into.  When it
creates this AppDomain, it assigns it all the evidence it knows without loading your
assembly, the URL and zone that it is loading from.  Since the AppDomain itself
does not get any evidence about the signature that your assembly has (it can't since
the assembly is not loaded yet), it will not match the code group that you created
giving extra trust.  Now when a security demand occurs, a stack walk begins. 
When your assembly is checked for correct permissions, it passes, and the stack walk
continues until it gets to the AppDomain.  Since the AppDomain doesn't have the
permissions that are required by this demand, it causes the SecurityException to be
thrown.

There are two ways to work around this problem.  The first way is to create a
code group that matches the evidence that the AppDomain is getting, using a SiteMembershipCondition
or a ZoneMembershipCondition, and trust that.  The other is to Assert() all the
permissions that your assembly needs at its entry points.  This prevents the
stack walk from getting to the AppDomain level, therefore preventing the AppDomain
from causing a SecurityException to be thrown.