making a code hidden when giving a asp.net web application.

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i made a web application in asp.net and C#. i want to make its coding complex or hidden before giving to my client. can anyone please guide me hot to do this??

Posted 30-Jul-12 16:42pm

codegeekalpha

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[no name] 30-Jul-12 22:47pm

If you really think that you need to do this then you need an obfuscator.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Jul-12 23:07pm

Obfuscator of what?
--SA

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Solution 5

Hi,
You can just publish your website before giving it to your client.
Follow the steps given in this link:
MSDN : Walkthrough: Deploying a Web Site Project by Using the Publish Web Site Tool[^]
MSDN : How to: Deploy a Web Site Project by Using the Publish Web Site Tool[^]

--Amit

Posted 30-Jul-12 19:03pm

_Amy

Updated 30-Jul-12 19:04pm

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Solution 3

If you are creating a web application instead of website
Go to build -> Publish

This option will make your code as dll file ie your website only contains aspx page + one dll in your bin folder there should not be any aspx.cs file

Posted 30-Jul-12 18:21pm

Renju Vinod

Updated 30-Jul-12 18:22pm

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Solution 1

If you dont want to show the code to the client, you can precompile your website. It will turn all your C# or VB code into a DLL. If your client is not smart enough to decompile them, your source is safe.

For more information on precompilation, check out the following MSDN article:

Precompilation Overview[^]

Posted 30-Jul-12 17:10pm

Pankaj Nikam

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30T17:12:00

The situation is very simple: what happens on the server part, does not need any protection, because it does not even exist, from the client's point of view. And everything on the client part is always fully open, by definition. The server part is used to generate the content which is downloaded to the client side fully. Before you try to do anything, the user already has it. So, you cannot hide anything on the client part.

However, you can obfuscate it, but thing twice about it: why? Do you think you have some important know how that anyone would bother to copy? Anyway, if you have such secret stuff, think about implementing it on the server side.

—SA