ILProtector

• Main Features
• Project Properties
• Command-Line mode
• Best practices to protect your assembly
• Frequently asked questions
• Useful Links

ILProtector is a protector for .NET applications. ILProtector is designed to protect intellectual property of the software.

ILProtector protects your .NET code against reverse engineering, decompiling and modifying. ILProtector transforms Intermediate Language (MSIL) code into a specific form that is not recognized by disassemblers and decompilers such as IL DASM, .NET Reflector, ILSpy, dotPeek etc.

Main Features

- Software code protection
- String encryption
- Integrity checking
- High performance
- Full reflection support for protected assemblies
- Supports .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8
- Supports Windows x32/x64 desktop applications
- Command-Line support
- Does not use undocumented features

ILProtector is protected by itself!

Project Properties

Protection tab:

Assemblies tab:

 

Command-Line mode

ILProtector supports Command-Line mode.

Parameters and Examples.

 

Best practices to protect your assembly

• Use EnableIntegrity option to protect the assembly from modifications.
• Use EncryptStrings option to encrypt the assembly user strings, for example such as connection strings, keys etc.

 

Frequently asked questions

Does ILProtector support Mono?

No, we have no plans to support Mono (at least now).

How to exclude certain methods from protection?

Use MethodImplAttribute with MethodImplOptions.NoInlining or MethodImplOptions.NoOptimization value:

 

[MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.NoInlining)] 
public static string GetCalendarName(Calendar cal)
{
     return cal.ToString().Replace("System.Globalization.", "").Replace("Calendar", "");
}

 

Which limitations does ILProtector have?

There are certain code protection scenarios where code protection can not be applied:

• Mixed assemblies C++/CLI
• Type constructors
• Generic methods and types
• Methods with invocation of __arglist method

 

Useful Links

Download ILProtector  Purchase ILProtector    Get License for free    

End-User License Agreement

ILProtector License Comparison

How to protect your .net software code with ILProtector?

How To Uninstall ILProtector

Contact Us