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!)
