The fifth step enables us to even more improve the protection of the Application, by encoding the Application's strings. We select the option I want to protect my work. In a managed Application, all the Strings used by the Application are clearly stored into the Assembly, including SQL strings, passwords and other sensitive information. Here is the Form1_Load method code before and after Strings Encoding: In the next Step, {smartassembly} can improve the quality of the Application by managing the Unhandled Exceptions for us. For the moment, we will not set this option to better understand the interest of this great feature.
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