Guardship .NET Protection Tool

Guardship .NET Protection Tool is a handy software that helps you keep your application’s source code safe. If you've put in the effort to write and compile your code, it makes sense that you’d want to protect it from anyone trying to copy or reverse engineer it, right?

Why Use Guardship?

This tool is pretty lightweight and focuses on protecting the executable files of your applications. It does this by making your code unreadable for MSIL disassemblers, which means no one can peek at your source code.

What It Can Do

Now, it's good to know that Guardship isn’t just an obfuscator tool. It doesn’t rename, encrypt, or use complex control-flow algorithms. Instead, its main job is to stop MSIL disassemblers completely.

Output Protection Types

The software allows you to recompile your executable files and makes them tough to read while keeping the metadata intact. You have two options for output protection: a single executable file or a combo with COM files and libraries.

Limitations

While Guardship does a great job against C, C++, or ASM disassemblers, it only works with EXE files. So if you're looking to protect .NET DLL libraries, this isn't the tool for you. However, you can still add non-DLL files related to your project as resources.

Tackling Issues Easily

A small downside is that protected executable files can't use related files in their start directory by default. To fix this issue, you'll need to ensure the reference libraries are in the Global Assembly Cache before running the executable. But don’t worry! The utility comes with a Linker function that helps solve this problem smoothly.

Your Protection Solution

If you're serious about stopping anyone from reverse engineering your executable files and want protection against decryption via Microsoft intermediate languages, then Guardship .NET Protection Tool might just be what you need!