During the last couple of weeks, I have been giving lectures on the subject of .NET code protection at some of the danish universities. Part of being a Microsoft Student Partner is exactly this, travelling the universities and spreading knowledge of the Microsoft platform. Naturally .NET is the most exciting topic to talk about as the primary audience mostly consists of computer scientists. Due to my work as a MSP I've got my 2006 Tech-Ed conference entry ticket paid, so I'm taking a short trip to Barcelona on the 8th of november untill the 11th of november. Hopefully...

Ah, the feeling of getting up a 5 AM, lovely! *cough* Ok, let me be perfectly honest with you, I am no early riser by default! I thrive by staying up until 5 AM in the morning while sleeping until I wake, whenever that is, very rarely before noon and never before sunrise. That's going to change. I have always been a fan of productivity. I hate having nothing to do. I hate being inefficient. I hate having only 24 hours a day. I have always been intrigued by the Uberman sleep schedule, but I am also...

When you write your code, compile it, and distribute the exe/dll's, is your source safe? We're not talking about protection against buffer overruns, SQL injection and various other code hacking techniques, we're talking protection of the source code itself, protection of intellectual properties. This article is the result of me touring the danish universities as a Microsoft Student Partner, giving lectures on the subject of securing code and intellectual properties in the realm of the .NET Framework. Download source code for the examples: securing_dotnet.zip The problem Why protect...