Re: Copy protection for a .NET application

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From: Robby (edmund_at_not.my.email.com)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:55:32 +1300

Use the NGEN utility that comes with the .Net Framework.

Robby

"Massimo" <barone@mclink.it> wrote in message
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>> You can skip MSIL and compile directly to machine code if you want. In
>> fact, you can obfuscate and then compile to machine code for double
>> protection. You don't have to release your program in MSIL. However, if
>> you do go straight to machine code then you will loose the cross platform
>> benefits of MSIL. That means you will have to complie separate
>> assembiles for PC, MAC and so on.
>
> Didn't know about this; how can I generate machine code? I was talking
> about a Windows application here.
>
> Massimo
>

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