C# Source Protector

[ghell]

Theres some "o" word that i dont know like obtrusficator but thats not important.. im trying to stop people from decompiling my c# apps and am not sure if the certs are good enough for this (or how to use them)

i have encountered software such as thermida but i encountered this in the case when a protected app didnt work on ws2k3 or 64bit or dual em64t at all (all of which i had) so i would prefer not to use this as it seems to be a tad incompatible (pretty much every release just makes it more compatible.. which suggests its not)

are there any good (prefereably free) things out there to hide my c# source from things like the .net reflector?

[Ender]

The 'o' word is important. It is the means by which you make your code harder to decompile and reverse engineer. The word is obfuscation. Look it up. I believe .NET has many good obfuscation techniques, if you use it.

[ghell]

Yea i have a list of around 20 obfuscators (theres even a msdn page reccomending a bunch) but they are all like $400 or there is a free version whcih does pretty much nothing.. like just changing the names of methods and their parameter names.. which really doesnt help whatsoever (since a simple refractor can easily rename all instances of it just from looking at what it does you can choose a better name than e(a, d) and then you have pretty much everything you had with reflector anyway..