Hello,

I made a C# windows application form program using visual studio 2013, so when I try to publish is there a way of hiding the code if someone tries to access it?

Thanks

 

Hello,

I made a C# windows application form program using visual studio 2013, so when I try to publish is there a way of hiding the code if someone tries to access it?

Thanks

Compile it as a .exe(look in your bin folder)...

 

Hi,

I'm sorry but I know next to nothing on computer programming, how do I do that or is there a tutorial you can point me too? And will this make it so that no one can access the code?

Thanks

 

Why hide it? Publish it as open source.

With C# and other CLR based applications EXEs can be disassembled with ildasm.exe and with the right settings it is possible to get pretty readable C# as an output.

 

You have to use code obfuscation tools to make it harder to reverse engineer your code. Otherwise it can be disassembled to intermediate language (which is much higher level than a standard assembly language) and even back to C#, with the exception of local variable names being lost.

There is a list of .NET obfuscators here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obfuscators_for_.NET

 

That'll do it, thanks!