"Close the code"

[Liszt]

I have made a Form application that contains of 2 Forms.
In these 2 Forms I have added controls and a lot of code behind.

How will I "Close the code" to this project so no one can open it and see all my code that I have done.

I have heard the expression "Close the code" many times but what does this meen and how will I do to do this ?

[MosaicFuneral]

Maybe as a DLL?
But - what's so "secret and special" about your code, are you embarrassed by it?

Even if you put your code in a DLL, make sure it's abstract enough for the user. Since no-one wants to route through several layers of classes, declaring objects to be used by other objects, when just calling one function from a single class could have done it.
Code is still nice as a documentation, unless you've documented it well.

[Liszt]

Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Form1

This folder Form1 contains many things, Debug Folder, Form1 Folder and .h files etc...

The thing is that the goal is to create a real program of this. Now the folder just contains a lot of C++ files and .h files when debugging in "Active(Debug).

I am not sure how to ask the qeustion but what I initially want to do is to do a "Final Compile" so this program will be a program to use and where the "code is closed" as most/all programs are.

Will I use "Release mode", would I create a .DLL file out of the whole Form1 project.(The folder contains 38 files) I am not sure how to start out this.

Maybe as a DLL?
But, what's so "secret and special" about your code, are you embarrassed by it?

[cikara21]

that's rite..u can use "release mode"..and then hide ur codes somewhere..

[Comatose]

*Quietly Mumbles Quotes From The Bible According To RMS*

[Liszt]

Release mode seems to work.
It created under C:\\
Form1 (application)
Form1 (Incremental Linker File)
Form1 (Program Debug Database)

I suppose now that with these 3 files that you cant open them in VC++ and see the code behind...

Thank you...

that's rite..u can use "release mode"..and then hide ur codes somewhere..