Practices for hiding the executable code of compiled applications

Question

It\'s a standard practice to decompile and reverse engineer .net assemblies.

I\'d like to release some plugin assemblies that will add to existing applications, but

Answer 1

You can write an app that will host CLR using the CLR COM api, that way you can first load and decode the assembly at the native code level. If you reinforce the native loader using several anti-reverse engeneering techniques, you can achieve good enough security.