Can You hide a .dll in another .dll or .exe

[domino.vbcoder]

Hi gang

I have a qyestion for the more advanced devs out there.

i have a 3rd party component that is part of a commercial release of our software and i was wondering is there a way of Hiding / Renaming or embedding the .dll so that to the naked eye the user cannot see what component it is?

Obviously there is always a way of finding out but for the novice user not knowing about disasembly etc, can this be done?

Any help is greatfully recieved

Many Thanks

Domino.VBcoder

 

[jmcilhinney]

If it's a .NET assembly then you can use the ILMerge tool from Microsoft to combine multiple assemblies into one. That said, you'd need to ensure that you weren't violating anyone's licensing terms by doing so. Really, I doubt a lot of publishers would be happy to have their own libraries merged into yours, but then there'd be others who wouldn't care.

 

[domino.vbcoder]

Awesome



Hi thanks for the reply i have ilmerge and its worked great apart from a slight increase in the overhead which is a sacrifice that i can deal with

Thanks for your help

Domino.VBcoder