How to protect your dll's best?

From: David Lindgren (david.lindgren_at_hogia.se.REMOVE!)
Date: 02/24/04

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    Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:44:06 +0100

    Hello!

    I have written some code which I would like to protect so that other people
    cannot use my methods etc. All of the code is inside a set of classes in a
    dll. I would like to protect it so that all classes inside the dll shall be
    able to "communicate" but it should not be possible to create objects of my
    classes from an outside dll or exe. There are two exceptions:
    1) One of the methods returns an object of a class. Everyone should be able
    to call this method. It is not static.
    2) From a program that I have written I need to be able to initiate a few
    objects and access some methods. Only "my" programs shall be able to do
    this.

    Question: What options do I have to protect my dll like I described above?

    Thank you for helping out.

    Regards,
    David.

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