Are you aware that you might be shipping your source code with your .NET dll
or exe? A new tool included in Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003 can help
you make sure that does not happen.
The .NET platform realizes Microsoft's vision for the next paradigm in
Windows computing: multiple programming languages interacting harmoniously,
sharing an enriched object-based framework, and executed by a Common Language
Runtime (CLR). This architecture provides an unprecedented degree of power
and flexibility. Unfortunately, that flexible design inherently produces a
problem for those wishing to hide their program's intellectual property.
Programs in the .NET Framework are easy to reverse engineer. This is not in
any way a fault in the design of .NET; it is simply a reality of mod... (more)