Protect from Reverse engineering

[Fabio]

Hi all,

How can I protect my .net code from Reverse engineering???

Please, any help will be useful.

Thanks in advance,
Fabio

 

[Guest]

Make it open source.

 

[Bob Lehmann]

Good answer. That way, after everyone has had their way with the code, it
will be so horribly obfuscated as to prevent ANY kind of engineering. In
other words - typical Open Sores hash.

Bob Lehmann

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How can I protect my .net code from Reverse engineering???

Use an obfuscator:

You will find some links here:

<URL:http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_dotnet.html#oo_dotnet_utilities_tools>

Notice that VS.NET 2003 includes the Light Version of Preemptive's
obfuscator.

 

[Brian Henry]

some people have to make a living on writing code, open source bits a
strangle hold on that profit from closed source code... not everyone will
pay for support, therefor a large amount of lost money... open source isn't
always the answer.. for standards it is, for proparity applications it's not

 

[Shawn B.]

Judging by the amount of dead or abandoned projects on SourceForge I'll
wager that Open Sourcing isn't the alternative unless he wants to abandon
his effort, as well, for lack of money while he maintains a full-time job
elsewhere actually making money. Since he wanted it protected, I get the
impression he'd rather not Open Source it. Is is the case with most
applications, he's probly not doing anything special that no one else is
doing but presumably he put hard work into it and doesn't want it stolen.
Of course, maybe he snagged OSS code from the dead projects on SourceForge
and doesn't want anyone to know so he wants it obfuscated. Or just maybe he
wants to profit and OSS isn't the end-all-be-all answer to all software
problems. Lets face it, if it wasn't for commercial/shareware software, OSS
wouldn't have anyone to follow or complain about (or motivate them). I'm
not arguing that there are successful OSS/Open/Free projects out there, but
of the 50,000+ on sourceforge, how many can you name off the top of your
head? How many can anyone name? I'll be there's 1 successful project for
every 1,000 on SourceForge.net. I think proprietary software is the best
solution if you want to get paid and actually retire early and buy a house
in Southern California (USA) and pay for your children to go through
college. If you don't have those kinds of aspirations, then OSS might be an
okay choice.


Thanks,
Shawn