DLL protection

[Juan C. Santaella]

Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect / hide
a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a reference in my
C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others in developing
another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

[Andrew Faust]

Juan C. Santaella wrote:

Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect / hide
a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a reference in my
C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others in developing
another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

Why bother? If this is something you purchased, and your license with
whomever wrote the dll allows you to distribute it, then locking it down
so other people don't use it is the problem of the person you purchased
it from.

Why spend your time and money protecting someone else's work for them?

Andrew Faust

[Juan C.]

Thank you for your answer, but it doesn't really answer the question.
JC

"Andrew Faust" <ae****@aradyme.com> escribió en el mensaje
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Juan C. Santaella wrote:

Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect /
hide a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a
reference in my C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others
in developing another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

Why bother? If this is something you purchased, and your license with
whomever wrote the dll allows you to distribute it, then locking it down
so other people don't use it is the problem of the person you purchased it
from.

Why spend your time and money protecting someone else's work for them?

Andrew Faust

[sloan]

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for.

Check my blog:
http://spaces.msn.com/sholliday/ 9/27/2005
Leveraging Dot Net Remoting To Keep Your "Secret Code" Safe
Dll's can be copied/deconstructed to see the source code.

If you want to keep your code supersafe, then the remoting idea is one of
the few that will work.

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"Juan C. Santaella" <NO*************@telcel.net.ve> wrote in message
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Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect / hide a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a reference in my C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others in developing
another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

[Nico]

Juan C. Santaella a écrit :

Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect /hide
a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a reference in my
C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others in developing
another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

Maybe you could try ILMerge to "hide" the DLL into the main executable...

Nico

[Juan C.]

Hi Sloan, not really how i want to do it but is a good approach. Also found
other interesting articles.
Thank you
JC

"sloan" <sl***@ipass.net> escribió en el mensaje
news:uS**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for.

Check my blog:
http://spaces.msn.com/sholliday/ 9/27/2005
Leveraging Dot Net Remoting To Keep Your "Secret Code" Safe
Dll's can be copied/deconstructed to see the source code.

If you want to keep your code supersafe, then the remoting idea is one of
the few that will work.

..


"Juan C. Santaella" <NO*************@telcel.net.ve> wrote in message
news:ei**************@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect /

hide

a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a reference in

my

C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others in developing
another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

[Juan C.]

Hi Nico, i think this is what am looking for. Also found this usefull
article about ILMerge
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/mergingassemblies.asp
I'll give it a try.
Thanks
JC

"Nico" <b_*********@free.fr> escribió en el mensaje
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Juan C. Santaella a écrit :

Hi, am new to C# programming and i wonder if it's possible to protect /
hide
a DLL that I bought with some functionality and used it as a reference in
my
C# Winform project so it's not copied and used by others in developing
another project?
Thanks in advance for your help.
JC

Maybe you could try ILMerge to "hide" the DLL into the main executable...

Nico