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More C# powerpoint slides
Here’s more powerpoint slides from the SIG meetings.
In December (4th, 7pm), we’ll do an all-skate on where we’re at with C#.
We’ll try some real world samples, beating the heck out of some Classes and other review topics.
See you there.
It’s taken five years for Microsoft to try and help protect your IP
Finally, Microsoft has announced a product to help protect you Intellectual Property (IP), not just theirs!
Read about Microsoft’s Code protection technology here.
It’s not your father’s obfuscation. It’s called Secure Virtual Machine (SVM), purportedly to be a one-way transformation.
If it’s really secure, then perhaps my customers may embrace the Dot Net platform, because up until now, obfuscation was insufficient to prevent reverse engineering.
Microsoft had supplied a lame version of an Obfuscator along with Visual Studio, but if you wanted the (almost) good stuff, you were out $1000 bucks per developer seat! That;s more then VS itself.
So it’s about time. hope it’s for real. the DotNet platform has so much promise, protecting IP has been what’s stopping it’s adoption for commercial softer.
Now… we have to find out what the commercial version costs. The free download is for evaluation only, it only will do three functions (boo hiss!)
CodeZone provides giveaways for SIG meeting
I have some great giveaways for the June 5th meeting, compliments of Microsoft and CodeZone.
If you have an office at work or at home, you’ll ultimately want to be there for your chance to win one of the great prizes. (must be present to win!)
See you there!
Some of our Sponsors
The links in the Resources sidebar are organizations or companies that have contributed in various ways to our SIG and user group. The 1and1 link is the link to the hosting company used by the Tampa Bay Computer Society, parent of the VB SIG. So far the TBCS has essentially received free hosting by the referral fees generated by being an affiliate with 1and1. We would appreciate that if you choose 1and1 as your hosting company that you click thru the link at the right so we get credit for your sign-up.
