A C# file that uses top-level statements looks like it has no class and no Main — you just write statements and the program runs. But an assembly has to have an entry point, and the metadata has to na
Your release pipeline is green. The obfuscation step ran, printed no errors, and the signed package is sitting in your artifact store. So the code is protected — right? A successful build only proves
A license used to answer one question about AI features: may this customer use them at all? That is no longer enough. An AI product today is a set of distinct, separately-priced capabilities — which m
Glass.NET is a free .NET decompiler built around navigation — you open an assembly and read it like your own source. But plenty of the work you do with a decompiler isn't interactive at all. You want
String encryption, control-flow flattening, renaming — they all protect the assembly on disk. But your program does not run on disk; it runs in memory, and by the time it is running the CLR has loaded
Licensing models were mostly designed for machines that stay put — a desktop, a server, a workstation. CI and cloud build agents violate that assumption on purpose: they exist for the duration of one
When you need to understand what an unfamiliar .NET assembly actually does — not to its own data, but to the machine — the native interop is where the answer lives. Managed code that stays inside the
Direct licensing has one issuer: you. OEM, white-label, and reseller channels break that assumption — now partners issue keys to their customers, under their brand, on their schedule, and you are not
There is a particular way a ClickOnce app fails after you add obfuscation that sends people down entirely the wrong rabbit hole: the app installs fine, then refuses to launch with a file validation or