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I have a desktop(winforms) application, and I’m looking for .net linker that links the assembly to assembler level(lower than IL) in order to prevent reverse engineering. another solution might be acceptable as well.
does anyone know of such a linker?
What you’re looking for is an obfuscator. It jumbles up the compiled code so that it still does what it is supposed to do, but if you decompile it, it is incomprehensible to most.
Note that any attempt to make it 100% safe is guaranteed to fail, all you can strive for is making it as hard as possible.
There’s many solutions that will do this in various ways:
Note, the last one isn’t an obfuscator, it virtualizes out your application. Some of the benefits of that is that it is a bit harder to get to the underlying code, but it is primarily a product that solves different problems, namely the need to separate out the application from the rest of the applications installed (ie. no need for .NET to be installed, no conflicting registry settings, etc.)