How Can I Protect/Hide My Codes From Reflector?

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How can I protect my C# codes from Reflector or Dotpeek or any .NET decompiler program?

Vulpes · Answer

I develop bespoke, mainly financial, corporate applications. Thankfully, I've never been a 'shrink-wrap' developer and so haven't had to worry too much about protecting intellectual property. If I were in that market, then I think I'd probably develop them in unmanaged C++ which is much harder to reverse engineer and produces faster executables than .NET. The downside, of course, is that applications take much longer to develop.

ssware · Answer

You should obfuscate your assemblies using apps like Crypto Obfuscator or Dotfuscator to prevent this.

MetalGearSolid · Answer

Thanks vulpes it was a good answer. I see that you are a professional coder h? Do you have any big software on the market :) What kind of softwares do you program? I will make a very big software in this year and that software will be the BEST and Most Powerful software on the Search Engine Optimization and Backlink Market. But I need to develop my programming skills! I'll keep developing! Thanks.

Vulpes · Answer

Please check my answer to a similar question in this thread: http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Forums/thread/177356/executionfile.aspx

How Can I Protect/Hide My Codes From Reflector?

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