There are various third-party tools called code obfuscators. They rewrite
the intermediate language code (MSIL) so that it is difficult to decompile
to human-readable code. They have different techniques, but generally work
by renaming descriptive variables and method names to generic names. For
example, the code:
Function CalculateYearEndBonus(Employeename as String, Salary as Decimal) as
Decimal
Dim BonusRate as Decimal
...
End Function
Might be rewritten to:
Function A(B as String, C as Decimal) as Decimal
Dim D as Decimal
....
End Function
That way, someone won't be able to tell easily what's going on in the code.
Salamander sells one obfuscator. There's one another, called Dotfuscator
Community Edition, that comes included with Visual Studio Profesisional 2003
and higher:
Obfuscation for .NET -- Dotfuscator by PreEmptive Solutions
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...r/dotf68q6.asp
If you're using a different version of Visual Studio, you can also download
Dotfuscator Community Edition for free from the Preemptive website.
For more information, search groups.google.com in the
microsoft.public.dotnet.* hierarchy.
"mosfet" <vs**@caramail.com> wrote in message
news:3f***********************@news.free.fr...
I have a question I would like to developp an app in .NET but I would like
to keep my source code secret.
However since anyone can decompile a binary to find the source code
(http://www.remotesoft.com/salamander/) how am i supposed to do ?
I have already used a java decompiler and it's amazing to see that you can
have the source code of any .class so if it works as well for .NET I am a
bit worried.
