Updated for Visual Studio 2005 Did you know you actually ship your source code every time you distribute a .NET assembly?
One of the consequences of the architecture of .NET is that a great deal of information about an assembly is kept with the assembly in a part of the file called the Manifest. This information makes it remarkably easy to not just reverse engineer the assembly, but to decompile it, make modifications, then recompile it. While such reverse engineering has always been possible, it is extraordinarily easy with .NET - a situation that is a significant problem to anyone distributing .NET applications or components who is concerned about protecting their intellectual property.
In this PDF E-Book, you'll learn about a technique called Obfuscation, that can help you avoid this problem. And you'll receive an in depth look at one particular approach to obfuscating your .NET assemblies, along with a link to a free download of Desaware's open source QND-Obfuscator.
