.net code protection

dch · 20th September 2007

Hi Guys,

Have any of you experience with .net code protection. I've been looking at CodeVeil, which looks very good and can also create demo versions of the software and activation licenses etc.

Anybody used CodeVeil, or anything similar? Any recommendations?

Cheers,
Sean

dotNetFreak · 20th September 2007

Hi Sean,

I'm currently using .NET Reactor for obfuscating and it can also do licensing including trials (although I haven't tried that part). It is pretty good and only $169 for a single developer...

Kevin

dch · 21st September 2007

Thanks very much for that Kevin,

Looks very promising - and that is an excellent price.

Have you tried decompiling anything you have done to see how good it is - even though the site does say "no tool is capable of decompiling .NET Reactor protected assemblies"

Going to give it a try later today I think.

Cheers,
Sean

dotNetFreak · 21st September 2007

Sean,

Yeah, I tried it using the standard .NET decompiler and it reckoned it couldn't be decompiled. I also tried Reflector and as soon as you hit anything that has been obfuscated it throws an exception and crashes

dch · 21st September 2007

Thanks Kevin,

I downloaded the trial earlier, and protected some code with it and my decompiling attempts failed too

It does seem very nice, and because of the nice price I'm about to buy it to try it without the nag screen on protected files.

Thanks again for suggesting this.

Cheers,
Sean