How to hide code in the assembly?

[Sharon]

I wrote an assembly in C#/.NET that includes some personal information.
But this information can be revealed by opening the assembly in tools like
the ‘Microsoft .NET Framework IL DASM’ and ‘Reflector’ .
I do not want to expose this code.

How do I hide it?

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Regards
Sharon G.

[Sharon]

Ok, it's sound much better.
But can you please explain how do I do option 1 and 2?

I'll very much appreciate code sample.

Thanks
Sharon

[Alexander Guirenko]

...
MailMessage MyMail = new MailMessage();
MyMail.Fields.A dd("http://schemas.microso ft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpau
thenticate", "1");
MyMail.Fields.A dd("http://schemas.microso ft.com/cdo/configuration/sendus
ername", "UserName") ;
MyMail.Fields.A dd("http://schemas.microso ft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpa
ssword", " password");
And by using the tool I mentioned before, this user name and password
can be
seen Easley.
How can I hide this data?

Solution is simple enough.
Please, do not keep real "UserName" and "password" in your source code.
Hide username and password to database or keep them (encrypted!) in
web.config file. Then (during run time) extract user name and password
from database or web.config file, decrypt and use them in
MyMail.Fields.A dd...


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[Sean Hederman]

This kind of information shouldn't be in the assembly anyway. If it's "baked
in" then it can't ever be changed without causing your application to stop
working. One way would be to store it in the configuration file (encrypted).
A better way would be to ask the user to enter the user name and password
the first time your app starts, and then store it using DPAPI.

"Sharon" <Sh****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote in message
news:FA******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Actually by problem is a bit different then I posted.
I'm sending mail form the assembly, and for that I'm doing authentication
like that:
MyMail.Fields.A dd("http://schemas.microso ft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticat e",
"1");
MyMail.Fields.A dd("http://schemas.microso ft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
"UserName") ;
MyMail.Fields.A dd("http://schemas.microso ft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
" password");

And by using the tool I mentioned before, this user name and password can
be
seen Easley.

How can I hide this data?

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Regards
Sharon G.