Alternative for Obfuscation in the .NET world

Question

Are there any alternatives for obfuscation to protect your code from being stolen?

Answer 1

There is no obfuscator that will ever be secure enough to protect an application written in .NET. Forget it! Obfuscating is not a real protection.

If you have a .NET Exe file there is a FAR better solution.

I use Themida and can tell that it works very well.

Themida is by far cheaper than the the most obfuscators and is the best in anti piracy protection on the market. It creates a virtual machine were critical parts of your code are run and runs several threads that detect manipulation or breakpoints set by a cracker. It converts the .NET Exe into something that Reflector does not even recognize as a .NET assembly anymore.

Please read the detailed description on their website: http://www.oreans.com/themida_features.php

The only drawback of Themida is that it cannot protect .NET Dlls. (It's strength is protecting C++ code in Exe and DLLs)