For everyone who received .NET Magazine #5 , there's an article in there at page 53 about cleaning up your code. Jan Tielens mentions a ConvertToProperties macro, which is really sweet! But there has been a printing error or something, the link went missing on page 55 in the bottom box. (http://xxx/...

For everyone who received .NET Magazine #5 , there's an article in there at page 53 about cleaning up your code. Jan Tielens mentions a ConvertToProperties macro, which is really sweet! But there has been a printing error or something, the link went missing on page 55 in the bottom box. (http://xxx/...

I've always been a big fan of Reflector , allowing me to have a look in assemblies to learn new things, debug in case of problems and provide usefull information when creating bug reports. Combined with the Reflexil Add-in it's now easy to also modify assemblies yourself. To demonstrate this, I've created...

In my last post I spoke about reverse engineering .NET assemblies upon which Gregory asked how to protect his code against it. Initially I thought signing an assembly would be the easiest way to prevent this, and my first tests confirmed this. I signed the CrackMe from my previous post and tried modifying...

Over the years, plenty has been written about string performance, lots of comparisons between String.Concat and StringBuilder. Today I decided to do some of my own research into the subject and contribute to the knowledge already out there. More specifically, I'll be taking a look at the memory usage...

In a previous article I have demonstrated how easy it is to decompile and reverse engineer .NET assemblies using Reflector and Reflexil. I've also shown that applying a strong name to your assembly does not protect your code from reverse engineering. So, what else is left? A technique called obfuscating...