Guardship: Software Protection & Licensing Tool

Key Features

• Guardship disassembles your .NET code and then compiles the MSIL code of your executable into native unmanaged application by generating two pieces: 1.
• Start module [Your_App_Name].com; 2.
• Library [Your_App_Name].libYour applications (WinForms, WPF, etc.) that target the .NET Framework are compiled to intermediate language (IL).
• At run time, the just-in-time (JIT) compiler translates the IL to native code.
• Guardship translates your .NET executable to native code to make it hidden.
• When you run the protected executable it has all features and functionalities of managed application performing in PC memory.
• But .NET assembly browsers and decompilers will not be able to read your protected .NET executables.Why does Guardship convert to unmanaged executable?There are a few disassemblers for decompiling unmanaged executables written in ASM, C, or C++.
• However none of them will manage to produce readable enough code to worth the effort.
• You will spend more time trying to read the decompiled source with assembler blocks inside, than writing the same-functioning application from scratch.In fact, any executable module can be disassembled and explored.
• The easiness with which a decipherer can reverse-engineer your application source code depends on how complete metadata about the app\'s source code presents inside the exe module.
• May the decipherer figure out the original class names, methods, work flows, structures, etc.?
• A compiler basically compacts app\'s source code, transforming the output into a format which is much compliant to machine runtime execution.
• It could be a native machine code or IL byte code that is treated by CLR intermediate runtime.
• However by and large, a lot of information about your application source code (debugging, comments, etc.) is simply can be lost during the compact compilation.

Technical Specifications

• **Publisher:** https://www.rustemsoft.com
• **License:** Shareware
• **Operating System:** Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
• **Last Updated:** October 15, 2025
• **Category:** Programming / Misc Programming Tools