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  1. May 20th, 2000, 01:36 PM #1
    Daniel_Christie
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    Does anyone have some source or suggestions that I can use to protect my source code from being decompiled? I need to protect my source code from prying eyes before I can hand my program out.

    If it helps, I am coding in VB 5.0 Enterprise Edition
    I appreciate all your time and effort,
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  2. May 20th, 2000, 07:34 PM #2
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    are you compiling to p-code, or native code?
    look in the project properties..
    I dont know the difference, but I think native code is safer.
    and there is no protection...
    anyone can use a program like softice(by numega) to decompile into ASM code, I dont think its possible to decompile into VB code....
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  3. May 24th, 2000, 09:11 PM #3
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    Dennis is right. Native code is safer. In terms of decompiling to something like vb or c, it can't be done right now. In terms of disassembling, someone can read the source but they'd have to know ASM and the effort would be tremendous. With assembly language, a little program like "hello world" becomes a 63-line program because assembly's at such a low level.
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