code protection

Is it possible to protect your ASP.net code with a password, so other people cannot edit yor code even if they have VS.net?
So that over enthusiastic 'superusers' and 'system administrators can not edit my code, and cause a lot of errors and damage, I have to clean up eventually :D .



Krol

Do you mean securing the ASPX pages? Since most of your business logic and secret code will
be in the DLL in the bin folder, there's no need to deploy the VB files.

This is similar to legacy ASP where developers would script their own DLLs as a way of hiding code.

Perhaps a stupid remark but, does the deployment program create this dll?, because all my code (secret code as you wish)
is in my aspx files.
Is the webdeployement program also
available in the standard edition?


Krol

Use code behind. The code will be compiled into a dll, so unless someone has your project files, they wont be able to edit your code.

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Originally posted by krol
Is it possible to protect your ASP.net code with a password, so other people cannot edit yor code even if they have VS.net?
So that over enthusiastic 'superusers' and 'system administrators can not edit my code, and cause a lot of errors and damage, I have to clean up eventually :D .

Krol

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Well, first, if you are talking pre-deployment, you can use something lik sourcesafe where you check in and out the source files to work on. I am pretty sure you can roll back any changes you need.

Next, you seem to be creating your asp.net apps the same way as old asp. By that I mean you are including your programming logic within the html of the page. You shouldn't really do this now that we have code behind files available to us. When you write your code in these code behind files, all your classes can be compiled into a dll and will be called when needed. It is faster because the dll will get further compiled after the first use, and there is no interpreting going on unless you still utilize late binding.

Should get you started going in the right direction:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/100500-1.shtml

thanks, I am going to studie the pages your hyperlink refers to.

I am realy learning a lot from this site!!!!

Thanks,

Krol