Awesome AnDrEw
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Hello again. I have finally finished the Windows application I had been having so much trouble with earlier on in the night, which was due to Vista's security restrictions (refer to this thread), and so I am ready to finally distribute an executable. As I had said I am more used to the previous versions of Visual Basic (1 through 6), and so I don't quite know my way around Visual Studio.NET aside from the general toolbars. I have read that it is necessary to obfuscate your code prior to deployment to make decompiling less easy (otherwise it is like Visual Basic 3), and I have the Community edition of the obfuscator.
What do I need to do in order to correctly, and efficiently obfuscate it, and then are there any further steps I need to take to compile an executable? Can I just use the executable file that seems to be compiled while running Visual Studio, or do I have to physically run a compiler somewhere within the .NET program? My last question is are there any files that I will have to include in a ZIP file with my executable in order to ensure that it will run on other computers as I used to have to worry about with Visual Basic 6? Any help will be completely appreciated.
What do I need to do in order to correctly, and efficiently obfuscate it, and then are there any further steps I need to take to compile an executable? Can I just use the executable file that seems to be compiled while running Visual Studio, or do I have to physically run a compiler somewhere within the .NET program? My last question is are there any files that I will have to include in a ZIP file with my executable in order to ensure that it will run on other computers as I used to have to worry about with Visual Basic 6? Any help will be completely appreciated.
