.NET file size? *RANT*

[Eddie Velasquez]

Code4Food wrote: Yeah but if they keep changing it like MFC then we have to distro apps with that anyways like I do now with MFC42 .NET's builtin versioning of assemblies prevents this scenario (bye, bye dll hell)

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Eddie Velasquez: A Squeezed Devil
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[Code4Food]

That sounds good what about the fact that people can decompile your code/dll? Are they going to solve that? Code4Food ---- "There is no try; only do or do not" -Yoda

[peterchen]

rememebr that the .NET runtime is, does and replaces much more than just MFC + VCRT. Yes, it's like bundling the entire system32 directory. We all hope that it#s getting better.

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You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare  Anne Clark   [sighist]

[Eddie Velasquez]

Well, there are pretty good decompilers for native code (granted, the output isn't as nearly as complete as an IL decompilation) and that hasn't stopped development. There are superb Java decompilers and that hasn't stopped java development either. There are good .NET obfuscators that will deter most reverse engineering, but if your code is so sensitive it shouldn't be out there anyway, expose it as a web service or something.

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Eddie Velasquez: A Squeezed Devil
Checkout General Guidelines for C# Class Implementation