[2005] How to set a password to my project

[nader]

How to set a password to my project not to the setup ?

[JuggaloBrotha]

Password protect the solution (source code)?

[Kasracer]

What do you mean by "password to my project"? Do you want it to ask for a password when you open it in Visual Studio or do you want the application you're developing to ask for a password?

As far as I know you can't set a password for your Visual Studio project.

If you want to add a password to your application... then go ahead?

What's the question / problem?

[knxrb]

Put what you want to protect in a password protected zip file.

[Jenner]

Put what you want to protect in a password protected zip file.

...and then run it through PGP or something since ZIP files are WAY too easy to break.

[nader]

What do you mean by "password to my project"? Do you want it to ask for a password when you open it in Visual Studio or do you want the application you're developing to ask for a password?

As far as I know you can't set a password for your Visual Studio project.

If you want to add a password to your application... then go ahead?

What's the question / problem?

I want a password when I open it in Visual Studio.

[Kasracer]

As far as I know that isn't possible... unless someone created a plugin. The problem lies in protecting the project. The way Visual Studio works it has all source code outside of the project file so a plugin would have to take 1 file with all of the encrypted data, decrypt it somewhere and let Visual Studio open it. Then it would have to re-package all of the data and remove the temporary files when Visual Studio exists. I'm not sure that that's possible.

Why do you want to do this? There may be a better solution.

[Jenner]

There's probably some source-code management plugins like the old SourceSafe system from VB6 Pro that'll let you do it, but I doubt any solution out there will be free.

[nader]

Thank you for all your effort!