Protecting Your Code—Obfuscation
As a measure to help make it more difficult for others to reverse-engineer your application, you should consider obfuscating your code before you release it. To obfuscate is to make obscure. When applied to a built application, obfuscation changes the names of your functions and variables, reorganizes your code, and masks your constants to make it extremely difficult for someone who decompiles your built application to figure out how it was designed and written. The ultimate goal of an obfuscator is to confuse a decompiler utility to the point that it is unable to decompile the code.
Visual Basic .NET 2003 ships with an obfuscation utility named Dotfuscator, which was developed by PreEmptive Solutions. The Dotfuscator ...
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