The scenario is we're about to release an exe to our clients. It's a
winforms application that uses reflection, remoting, generics, and
serialization. We want to protect the intellectual proprety rights of our
code. One solution is to obfuscate the exe. I've come across some 3rd party
solutions that claim they can compile the exe to native code (xenocode,
remotesoft, etc). I'm wondering if there is some tool in the .NET framework
that can compile winforms applications directly to native code, thereby
bypassing MSIL + JIT compilation? The native executable can then be
deployed.
I've read about the ngen utility, but it doesn't seem applicable in this
case. From my understanding, ngen will precompile the exe and add it to the
native image cache on the respective machine. What I'm looking for here is a
way to bypass MSIL + JIT compilation.
Thank you!