Creating secure .exe files in C#

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Published on 2010-05-17T10:57:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 11:00 UTC
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Hi,

I have heard some mutterings about C# being quite easy to "crack" and/or reverse engineer.

Is this the case and if so, how can I go about preventing this, if possible ? Or at least making it more difficult ?

Thanks, George.

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