VS2010 Project Configuration - Anti Reverse Engineering Friendly

I am searching for some good tricks开发者_开发知识库 of project settings in Visual Studio 2010 to get binary harder to reverse engineering.

There is one: run a protector in post-build event.

Turn on as much optimization as you can without making your program crash, this will make the resultant binaries MUCH harder to reverse engineer. You can get address-space layout randomization through the linker option. Otherwise, there are obvious things like building a release version instead of a Debug version, Since 2003 Visual Studio comes with Dotfuscator, which does a good job of protecting .NET programs. To add to Abyx's comment, some protectors, like Software Passport and Oreans products allow you to insert anti-tampering things during the compilation process, which is much more effective than just applying the packer to the compiled binary.

Use Obfuscator (standard in visual studio 2010). It scrambles your code when compiled so when it is decompiled it will not be readable.