Guardship .NET Protection Tool

Given the hard work and dedication need to write and compile the source codes for your applications, it is only natural that you would want to protect your project and make sure that nobody can reverse engineer or copy your code.

Guardship .NET Protection Tool is a lightweight piece of software that enables you to protect the executable file of your application by making its code unreadable for MSIL disassembler.

First off, it is important to note that the utility is not an obfuscator tool and hence, it does not count renaming, encrypting or incorporating control-flow algorithms into its functions. The idea behind the program is to ensure that nobody can access the source code by stopping MSIL disassembler completely.

In other words, the application allows you to recompile your executable files and make them incredibly hard to decipher, while leaving the metadata intact. In this sense, you can select between two output protection types, namely single executable or a pair that includes the COM files and libraries.

Although it does a great job of stopping C, C++ or ASM disassemblers dead in their tracks, you should know that the program solely addresses EXE files and thus, cannot be employed to safeguard .NET DLL libraries. On the other hand, it does allow you to add other non-DLL files associated with the application and can be included as the project's resources.

The setback of the approach is that the protected executable file is not able to use the related files in the start directory by default. Generally speaking, solving this issues entails making sure that the reference libraries in the Global Assembly Cache before using the accessing the executable. You will be happy to learn that the utility includes a Linker function that can help tackle this inconvenience without too much hassle.

If you want to make sure that nobody can reverse engineer the executable files and that they are protected against all attempts of decryption via Microsoft intermediate languages, then perhaps Guardship .NET Protection Tool can come in handy.