Absolutely - the patent in question was not a specific algorithm, but a style of writing code. It sounded to me like a design pattern more than anything. so imagine if a design pattern could be copyrighted, it would be the same as copyrighting the fact that petrol burns. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Take a look here http://www.preemptive.com/dotfuscator/dotcomdld.html[^] Also from their home page it looks like it is going to be intergrated in the next release of vs.net What Would Uncle Steve Do?. -Michael Martin

Yes, I know. Make sure to use fully qualified using xxx; statement as well. How low can you go ? (MS rant)